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Tom
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| Posted 1/28/2010 9:26 AM (GMT -6) |   | I recently ran across a nice work of art done by a gal named Ashley Jones, daughter of good friends of mine. I can’t post the picture, but it’s cool. It’s a self-portrait of her set inside a forest, where her face is woven into the trees.
Underneath the picture she wrote: “What if we were meant to be trees? Meant to give life instead of take it? To stare at the stars until they were freckles on our faces? I wonder.”
The thought inspired me. I’ve been playing around with poetry recently, mostly translating some modern Arabic love poems into English. But also some of my own stuff. I suck at it, but I do enjoy it. It’s like painting with words.
Anyhow, I took Ashley’s words and built on them. So I dedicated the piece her.
To Ashley
What if we were meant to be trees?
Meant to give life instead of take it?
To stare at stars until
They were freckles on our faces naked?
Meant not to fake it?
I wonder.
What if we are trees but don’t yet know it?
Because we don’t yet know how to show it,
How to raise our limbs to the sunlight’s call,
Drink in its life, breathe it out for all.
Maybe all things living are at heart one and the same,
Leaning on and leaned upon,
Your sunset someone else's dawn,
Reaching out explore myself,
See in others my own wealth,
In whom we live and move,
In whom we have our being,
Whose voice in every voice is heard,
And whose face is every face we’re seeing.
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Tom
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