This is a small poetry club that started as a poetry email exchange between two friends. Our goal is to read a poem everyday, and this blog is one way to help keep us accountable. There is only one valid rule in poetry club: there are no rules in poetry club. Read any poem, in any order, with any or no interactions. You decide. We only suggest you read poetry!
24 Nov: "I never saw a discontented tree" by John Muir
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
An energy transfer from tree to man. Just seeing peace in the trees also makes man more peaceful, personification of tree feeling emotion and traveling. What does he mean by "travel"? I just watched this TED talk on "tree sense" where the scientist described how one tree is linked to the entire system of trees underground. If you kill one tree, the entire system responds. Their way of travel? Or travel in wisdom? "Though fast rooted" steady, permanent, they are able to travel to places of wisdom and peace that we spend our entire lives searching for.
An energy transfer from tree to man. Just seeing peace in the trees also makes man more peaceful, personification of tree feeling emotion and traveling.
ReplyDeleteWhat does he mean by "travel"? I just watched this TED talk on "tree sense" where the scientist described how one tree is linked to the entire system of trees underground. If you kill one tree, the entire system responds. Their way of travel?
Or travel in wisdom? "Though fast rooted" steady, permanent, they are able to travel to places of wisdom and peace that we spend our entire lives searching for.
How about their travels as products?
ReplyDeleteI see personalities and character in trees. Not all trees but some trees, I notice and think of a story or whatever comes to mind. Cacti are the best!
Although I don't remember any discontented trees, I'm sure I have seen one before.
Travels as products (and uses), whoa, didn't even cross my mind, thank you!
ReplyDeleteWhy is that so true? Some trees, indeed, have inherently more personality...
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