Living with Nature School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday
The leaning firetree from afar, along Regalado Avenue, going to Commonwealth Avenue, QC |
Firetree (Delonix regia) in bloom leaning precariously
45 degrees towards Regalado Ave., Fairview, QC 2010
for all passersby to greet and honor;
your trunk and limbs reach out
in friendly handshake and embrace;
you send confetti year round,
green in monsoon, fire red in summer;
you comfort the tired and weary
under your shade;
you filter the air of gas and dust,
heat and sound;
mark the passing of seasons,
the turn of the clock;
you are home and inn of creatures:
birds and their young,
fern and moss clinging,
bees and butterflies;
you stir imagination into the arts,
in song and poetry;
rise up and point to heaven
to enliven the spirit;
with arms outstretched for so long,
you have been calling, pleading,
for a passerby to stop and look up;
I did but you were no longer there. ~
you stir imagination into the arts,
in song and poetry;
rise up and point to heaven
to enliven the spirit;
with arms outstretched for so long,
you have been calling, pleading,
for a passerby to stop and look up;
I did but you were no longer there. ~
NOTE: The last time I passed by the tree it was no longer there. On its stump cut by a chainsaw sat a road worker resting in the noon sun, his gaze expressionless and far.
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