Rough brown skin scratches my cheek
I lean into your strength
My arms wrap around you
My fingers not touching
Reminding me of your age
A comfort in this short sighted world
Your willowy boughs sway in the hot breeze
But under your protective shadow
I am but one who rejoices/relishes in your giving nature.
This poem was written for Jamie Dedes’ Wednesday Writing Prompt to write a poem about a time when I felt most at one with nature (note: the link is Jamie’s post with the prompt responses as she has a new method for collecting response to her prompts. The original request is here.)
I love Nature however Nature has often times not loved me back as evidenced by all the insect bites I usually get during the summer, the sunburns, and the humid-inspired frizzy hair-do. Trees though have been a stalwart friend on these hot summer days. I am always saddened when I see one being cut down. All those decades, centuries of growing…and only a few minutes to have it all fall down. Not to mention the loss of an oxygen creator…
When we lived in verdant New Hampshire, Hubby and I used to joke about not having enough trees for everyone…now I fear, that may soon be not a joking matter.
©️ iido 2019
Beautiful and your concern about not enough trees, resonates! ❤️ On a lighter note, nature loves me back in the same manner…frizzy hair and insect bites…so this resonates too! 😉
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You’re part of the “sweet blood club”, as Gina would say! But maybe yours is sweeter than mine so they if they had a choice between you and me…😉😁
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Lol We would have to check that out when we are together!😂😂
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Wow… I adore this poem, especially your last two lines… you had me running outside and looking for the nearest tree to hug !!
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Yay! I’m sure it would have appreciated one of your lovely hugs – lucky tree!
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well said, I love to hug trees!
Nature gives me massive sunburn so I cover up completely, few insect bites and sadly I have dead straight hair 😦
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I’ve taken to covering up as well instead of using sunscreen. Good thing I am more of a forest hiking person than a sitting on the beach person!
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oh I love walking along the beach but stay well covered … sun lotions here are toxic concoctions and often past their use by date …
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Yes, I’ve just been reading what sun screen lotion is doing to the reefs…😢
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yes putting chemical in or on my body are things I’ve always tried to avoid!
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Same here but it’s so hard sometimes to find products like that.
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true, often have to make our own concoctions 🙂
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when we get bitten by mosquitoes it is said that we have sweet tasting blood, so nature loves you! you had a love bite! i love trees, big trees especially and a lot of poems on them in my archives, you make me want to go and bring a tree home!! LOL. love the arrangement of words and the flow into my heart.
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Thank you so much, Gina! We say that too about having sweet blood although I just read a study that said that people with stinky feet get bitten the most 🤔 I would surround my home with more trees if I could!
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oh i never heard about the stinky feet one…LOL…that would be so revealing!
i like my neighbourhood for that very reason, there are trees on every street and the park is so leafy all year round.
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Yes, nature is can be such a respite and is so healing!
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Fantastic metaphor! Possibly one of the best I’ve ever encountered.
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Thank you so much! That means a lot coming from you! ❤️
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Nature at its finest..and i share your sentiment Irma..yes we dont have much trees around anymore..
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