trees
trees are patient
trees are kind
trees don’t argue
they don’t mind
if we’re cruel
….. or unkind
trees are patient
trees are kind
© Ken Chawkin
A sequel to Being in Nature, a gift from a tree.
Both written mid-1990’s in winter, Vancouver, BC.
Also see What Do Trees Do? Something to think about, Willow Tree – a tanka – from a tree’s perspective, and Friendship – another tree tanka.
Tags: compassionate, kind, non-argumentative, patient, the nature of trees, the virtues of trees
The Uncarved Blog 
January 23, 2012 at 4:34 pm |
Trees give us heart
They give us soul
And if we’re patient
They give us coal 🙂
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January 23, 2012 at 5:23 pm |
Thanks, Lizzie. Cute! That’s one gift from trees I forgot to mention in my poem, What Do Trees Do? http://wp.me/pD0BA-1j6, which I think you’ll like. I was thinking more of living trees. Thanks for stopping by.
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September 1, 2012 at 11:49 am |
[…] see: Friendship – another tree tanka, Willow Tree Tanka II, What Do Trees Do?, and trees—a poem about the nature of trees Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailMoreStumbleUponDiggRedditPrintLike this:LikeBe the first to like […]
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March 14, 2013 at 10:55 pm |
[…] This gift from the tree was much appreciated. I later called it Being in Nature. Its sequel, trees, was about the nature of trees, and what we can learn from them. Another poem once came to me from […]
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