Mother Tree: Poem for Earth Day
Written by a True Tree-Hugger
Hold me snugly to the earth,
lift me sweetly to the sky,
root your gnarled fingers deep
into your mother's rich soil.
She suckles you from seedling
to massive cloudscraper.
Now reach, arch,
lift your limbs in dance,
draw life from air
as I do.
Exhale your excess oxygen
and feed my every cell,
as surely as the cord
within my mother's womb.
Let me press against
your creviced hardened skin,
assimilate your strength.
Let me climb into the crook
of your wide expansive arms.
Let me rest there
as you rock me,
while gently pulsing breezes
caress your skin
and mine.
Let us soak the sun together
in our time
and hold me as a mother
to her breast.
lift me sweetly to the sky,
root your gnarled fingers deep
into your mother's rich soil.
She suckles you from seedling
to massive cloudscraper.
Now reach, arch,
lift your limbs in dance,
draw life from air
as I do.
Exhale your excess oxygen
and feed my every cell,
as surely as the cord
within my mother's womb.
Let me press against
your creviced hardened skin,
assimilate your strength.
Let me climb into the crook
of your wide expansive arms.
Let me rest there
as you rock me,
while gently pulsing breezes
caress your skin
and mine.
Let us soak the sun together
in our time
and hold me as a mother
to her breast.
Spring 2006
Published by Allene Newberg Bilodeau
Born NYC, reared in Bloomington, IN, my heart's of two cities. Went to IU as mom w/ 2 boys. Married a good man w/encyclopedic brain (very handy!). Became homebirth educator and apprentice midwife. Had 3 more... View profile
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12 Comments
Post a CommentI went "Wow" reading it. Stunning. One of the best poems I've read on AC.
Excellent poem - I thoroughly enjoyed it!
I had to stop hugging my tree long enough to say that this poem is positively brilliant, and my tree finds it incredibly sweet, as well.
Hear! Hear! There was a program on, I think PBS, the other day that featured the oldest tree in the world (the Methuselah tree, I think they call it) that has been there for thousands of years. I watched it and wondered what it would be like if that tree can talk... It can tell me ten good stories a day for every day of my life and I'll be dead before it has told a quarter of its life experience! Thanks for putting me in a tree-hugging mood! ;o)
Gnarled fingers... mother's rich soil... massive cloudscraper... creviced hardened skin... The mother-baby theme... You are as wonderful as any tree. You soothe me.
I love trees and love your poetry.
Great poetry, (or should that be poet-tree). Wonderful writing.
i love your poems so much! this was excellant!
Beautiful! I feel like I really did just hug a tree. This is the best Earth Day poem I've read on AC.
I can't compliment you anymore without sounding repetitious, but I can't not compliment you either. Truly beautiful, as always.