10/03/2021

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Wintergreen
A city tree
wanted to chew gum,
breathed many little bubbles of wintergreen .
Suddenly, in one of those Wintergreen bubbles
the memory of forgotten times.
He buried his roots
deep into the loamy, sandy soil,
to hold that memory,
to make the bubble grow.
The memory of deep green, moist ferns and lichens,
loamy forest floor,
a mushroom now and then.
And herbs that smelled of that winter green,
that memory had fetched from the furthest back of its bark.
Above it all, lotus blossoms entwined,
and embraced the tree in its
soft dream.
The people stopped
and looked at the tree,
which suddenly had an extraordinary,
radiant green aura,
interwoven with the
Brown of its bark the sandy clay-yellow of the soil and a touch of the etherealness of this winter greens.
His aura took the people into this dream,
and for hours they were with him
in this place of days gone by.
When the Wintergreen bubble finally
burst,
he and the people
the memory,
that every tree carries within it.
wanted to chew gum,
breathed many little bubbles of wintergreen .
Suddenly, in one of those Wintergreen bubbles
the memory of forgotten times.
He buried his roots
deep into the loamy, sandy soil,
to hold that memory,
to make the bubble grow.
The memory of deep green, moist ferns and lichens,
loamy forest floor,
a mushroom now and then.
And herbs that smelled of that winter green,
that memory had fetched from the furthest back of its bark.
Above it all, lotus blossoms entwined,
and embraced the tree in its
soft dream.
The people stopped
and looked at the tree,
which suddenly had an extraordinary,
radiant green aura,
interwoven with the
Brown of its bark the sandy clay-yellow of the soil and a touch of the etherealness of this winter greens.
His aura took the people into this dream,
and for hours they were with him
in this place of days gone by.
When the Wintergreen bubble finally
burst,
he and the people
the memory,
that every tree carries within it.
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