The circumstances in the poem I wrote for this day have changed multiple times, which has led to the decision to write a different poem for the day. This text is a placeholder for the poem.
Oops! Forgot to put a poem in here. My apologies. Adding one I wrote last year with a tree theme and reposting:
Do Plants Go to Heaven?
Where did crinkle-petaled salmon poppies go
that blossomed along painted white brick fence
between gramma & grampa’s place and uncle’s?
Where did stunted white rose of sharon tree go,
under yard-wide shade of oaks, centered with red
blossoms, within child’s reach, adults face high?
Where did giant lilac trees go, perfuming yard;
cut down to stumps by grampa every so often
yet rising again like stories of mythical deities?
Where did patch of lily-of-the valley go, covering
ground under seasonally paired gangly sassafras;
gramma used to steep root beer roots for sweet tea?
Where did floribunda pale snowball bush wander,
from its station outside front door, near patch of
sidewalk perpendicular to one leading nowhere?
Where did the concept of heaven for humans
arise? Rainbow bridges for beloved furbabies?
A place where overdosing creatives continue art?
I hope poppies, rose of sharon, lilacs, lily-of-the
valley, sassafras, snowball bush are waiting,
in heaven as they did on earth, for me there.
Lisa, what a wonderfully written poem about trees. And I like Wangari’s ideas about preserving the environment and planting trees. Thank you so much for sharing it 👍☺️
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Yasan, thanks very much and glad you like Wangari’s ideas :)
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You’re most welcome, Lisa. Wishing you a wonderful new week ahead. ☺️
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truly a heart tug and you know, I heard pets will be in heaven – and we will have a welcome team of people – but I never thought about trees andplants – and gosh – this was wonderful and the cllsing stanza had so many plants I LOVE – and smile to think
thet ” are waiting,
in heaven as they did on earth, for me there”
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Michele, thank you very much. Each one has a family connection <3
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So well done
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I want my old pets and of course willow trees!
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I hear you, Max. Heaven wouldn’t be right without our old pets and trees. No poison ivy though, send it straight to hell. lmao
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Yep! NO poison Ivy!
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You know I have no theology in me at all Lisa but I do think plants can show us what the afterlife really is. They shed, that becomes nutrients and then things grow again. They have off shoots and seeds and make wood or fruit and then they die, and they go again and again.
I’d love to think of my pets and friends the same way.
On the sweet hereafter I can but quote David Niven in A Matter Of Life And Death;
“Oh, I always hoped there would be dogs.”
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<3 Thank you for your lovely (and wise) comment, my friend.
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