Why do Some Trees Dance?
Why Do Some Trees Dance?
Why do some trees dance
At unseen breezes,
On the stillest of days…
Why are some branches quite limber,
Shaking leaves in gentle spritely waves,
Making a new music of light and sound
Yet other trees are still
When the winds dance by
Immoveable
Waiting,
Hoping,
Holding their breath
Wondering if
“Those dancing ones can’t have known the beating rains
Pelting,
Pelting,
Pelting,
The heat of that sun!
Burning,
Burning,
Burning,
The drying winds
Blowing,
Blowing,
Blowing
Or they would be
stoic,
Hard,
Sad
Like us…”
Why do some trees dance
At unseen breezes,
On the stillest of days
Yet other trees are still
Stoic, and sad
As the winds dance by-
Zellie M. Quinn
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About Zellie M. Quinn
I first started writing poetry in the early 1980′s while in the military. I found that I could write on the back-blank side of pages of important documents all the soldier poems welling up in me. The guys discovered the poems and began to take them. This proved to be a not-so-good thing, since during inspections our site was docked points due to the missing pages of important documents.
I wish I could honestly say that as soon as I realized this, I immediately stopped all further deviant behavior…
Alas…
Other than that I was a good soldier.
Currently the poetry editor at Catholiclane.com
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Beautiful! I know people like your trees.
That is very true. I like to think of myself as a dancing tree
I’m “”learning”" to be a ‘dancing’ tree!
Zellie – i really love this – it so captures the imagination!
Some of the dancing trees, though, snap at their roots, while the still, immovable trees, that have sent roots deep into the ground, grow large in girth and height. And when those winds and that dryness assails them, they endure. Their age rings are added, year by year; they quietly provide shade and pleasure to many for long periods of time — not just for the moment.
So, both trees are needed — the dancers and the stalwarts. They live in the same forests; along the same banks.
Thanks for visiting. I appreciate your “like,” though I wonder at the singular choices we have (other than comments) in responding to blog posts, or Facebook posts. Sometimes the word “like” seems inappropriate.
But, the poem above?
I understand it.
Can it be that a tree have a bit of the willow and a bit of the oak at the same time?
Can the two woods coexist?
I certainly hope so.
I “like” your poem.
Thanks for the comment Skipmar- Although I have a picture of a weeping willow, that actually was not the inspiration for my poem- Is it the cottonwoods, or some variety of the birch, with silver-backed leaves. On hot breezy days, I see those leaves waving frantically in the tender breezes, and other leaves don’t move at all- that was my inspiration- but I loved your interesting perspective- maybe you (or I) have yet another poem (about trees) to write about.
I think that I shall never see . . . but I think that one has already been composed.
Uplifting and moving poem! enjoyed it! and thanks for liking my interview at Author interview no.621 with historical romance novelist Nandita Banerji
Lovely poem. I wonder–can a tree dance sometimes, be still at others?
Absolutely- just depends where that tree is at on that given day
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loved it
Thankyou:)