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A simple cottage On a calm secluded hill: Here contentment dwells. ~ Poetictouch
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May 16
May 16, 2026 at 9:28 AM UTC
A Simple Cottage
Once, on a green hill, I met a sweet daffodil: Lovely was her smile. ~ Poetictouch
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May 15
May 15, 2026 at 11:06 PM UTC
Sweet Daffodil
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I'm getting older in a few days and I'll be sober sober from the euphoria of disney fantasies and delusions- the delusions kept me going but when reality kicks in, I'll surely discover that delusions are not the solution just a fragile facade. Last week I saw my lost friends so I called my Ma, I couldn’t bear to relive the suicidal fantasies and the drama, even though I'd still prefer the embracing feel of a coma. The smell of a vanilla candle keeps met tight, because being a soon-to-be-adult is a lot to handle. As death is creeping and waiting for an open handle. Maybe because no one has ever told me, that growing up meant losing your loved ones- that growing up means working so hard until your back hurt- that growing up means slowly fading into nothingness- when you feel like your’e running out of time because you have dreams to chase, or maybe I'm just bad a handling these obstacles I'm facing. I thought growing up would be fun but all it's been is pressure, pressure to succeed and be better than my peers, pressure to be a flawless member of society- but no-one said growing up would be fun I thought it would be a walk in the park but in reality, it feels like chasing a running hill. When I was young, I always wanted to grow up so fast, so that I could be an adult and free. Now that I’m older I wish I could go back in time- when I was nothing but a young child yearning to grow up so fast.
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Dec 30, 2025
Dec 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM UTC
Noone said growing up would be fun
i happy me ecstatic by happiness by bursts within   or mad at myself for the height of the hill? brightness comes forward forward forward
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Dec 27, 2025
Dec 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM UTC
hill
A distant man stands Upon the highest hill, The morning sun surrounds him And lantern smoke drifts still. I've never seen his face up close, Yet never thought to ask - I've never felt the warm embrace Of winter sun where he holds fast. So up the hill I dream to climb, To reach the place Where earth meets sky sublime. The lantern glows As daylight fades to cold, And oily smoke rises, Whisked like tendrils bold. The Night Through darkness now I trudge And climb with aching will - My goal sits gleaming So tauntingly uphill. But night wind howls its fury, Bellows with wicked will, Drives me stumbling downward Until I'm at the bottom still. Second Dawn By morning light I rise again, I grasp the earth with bitter grin. Though the mountain towers steep, I know that I will not grow thin. Each handhold brings me higher, Each footstep claims new ground - The figure watching from above, The seeker climbing upward bound. The Summit And when at last I reach the top, I'll light the lantern's flame, I'll watch the sun dance through the sky And know I've won this game. But as I stand here, looking down, I see a figure far below - An ardent soul who watches me And dreams of heights they've yet to know. The Climber A steady man stands Upon the highest hill, The radiant sun beckons - Another climber tests their will.
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Dec 8, 2025
Dec 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM UTC
The Climber
and you wanna be happy with jmmy you gotta get positive vibes people out their are sad and angry you do your job and people are gonna be happy and calm you do your job you make money but you get those vibes hard that's the way you work if you wanna work with jimmy "so you're saying if i work with you i'll learn the value of a positive vibe" if you work with jimmy you gonna work hard you make money the people are sad and angry eh that sounds just fine
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Nov 22, 2025
Nov 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM UTC
my name's jimmy wichard
We wish, we wished, we knew, how the peace we make lingers, magical thinking must not work, but we were reared to really pray, unceasingly, never failing to expect to have, even as we uttered our amen, peace enough to share, by our own will making our agreement amenable in spirit, and truth, as two parts of all that ever may be, you and me, in the way life happens where you and me live. It is written, any judgement begun, where ideas form words to hold them in common, any truth can be tested by its effect on a satisfied mind, so when I say, spirit, you assume I speak of nothing tangible in the natural, just something like a will we let be today's good in our local mind, at the time, to make us think, before we use pre judged worths, a dime, or a penny, today, ain't worth a wooden nickel, -- I just remembered when I was thirteen… Coke machines in Texas sold bottled Cokes in six ounce bottles, for a Nickel, and two empties garnered six cents, enough for a soda pop and a piece of bubble gum. That's how much things change in the space of one measured neighborly Jubillee. Whittling kindling is what honed knives are for, I watched old men do it, and found it works, look ahead to a winter fire easy to revive, with shavings from summer whittle sessions, making peace where none was when I woke up, the whole world under old war rules running on, but, while Jubilees are, done while considering, just imagined, how debt erasure functions, allows us freedom from wrong reasons past. We have all seen the size of Earth, we all know our only neighbors are here. We are a chosen planet, not a chosen people. And on this planet, good people, make useful peace.
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Sep 1, 2025
Sep 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM UTC
Whittling things to a point
We wish, we wished, we knew, how the peace we make lingers, magical thinking must not work, but we were reared to really pray, unceasingly, never failing to expect to have, even as we uttered our amen, peace enough to share, by our own will making our agreement amenable in spirit, and truth, as two parts of all that ever may be, you and me, in the way life happens where you and me live. It is written, any judgement begun, where ideas form words to hold them in common, any truth can be tested by its effect on a satisfied mind, so when I say, spirit, you assume I speak of nothing tangible in the natural, just something like a will we let be today's good in our local mind, at the time, to make us think, before we use pre judged worths, a dime, or a penny, today, ain't worth a wooden nickel, -- I just remembered when I was thirteen… Coke machines in Texas sold bottled Cokes in six ounce bottles, for a Nickel, and two empties garnered six cents, enough for a soda pop and a piece of bubble gum. That's how much things change in the space of one measured neighborly Jubillee. Whittling kindling is what honed knives are for, I watched old men do it, and found it works, look ahead to a winter fire easy to revive, with shavings from summer whittle sessions, making peace where none was when I woke up, the whole world under old war rules running on, but, while Jubilees are, done while considering, just imagined, how debt erasure functions, allows us freedom from wrong reasons past. We have all seen the size of Earth, we all know our only neighbors are here. We are a chosen planet, not a chosen people. And on this planet, good people, make useful peace.
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I invite you to the greenfield, At the corner of hope and love. It rests upon the hill, Overlooking a lake of blue water. We will be in the company of A solitary nut tree, heavy with fruit, An old picnic table carved with scattered letters, And a chorus of bees whispering to wild pink and yellow flowers. A beautiful sunset will cast its light across the greenfield, While the sky shifts in confusion—orange, red, and pink. A blue butterfly dances, delighting in the gentle breeze. A playful squirrel nibbles on nuts, While a nest of birds sing in anticipation of visitors. Together, we shall let nature read our minds, Feel our hearts, and speak our words Through its muted language. Hussein Dekmak
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Aug 31, 2025
Aug 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM UTC
Invitation
We can not outrun a donut rolling downward.. That’s why losing weight is an uphill struggle. But donuts can’t run up a hill, only fall behind.
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Aug 27, 2025
Aug 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM UTC
Donut's can’t run
Shady sunshine falls on a bright green hill Chubby cheeks and ringlet curls Frolicking around fat squirrels and dandelions Spinning on a rope swing, A blurry canopy of trees and laughter Big smiles make us feel young So we frolicked and danced under the sun.
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Jun 11, 2025
Jun 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM UTC
Under The Sun
The hill I will die on, Is that most battlefields aren’t worth dying on. Some people see a mob, And grab their pitchforks and their torches, Without even understanding, What they’re fighting for. Perhaps they love the bloodshed, Perhaps they love the gore, Perhaps they feel righteous indignation, And are adamant to settle the score. It could be some primal need to fight, Or some could be sure that they’re right. Either way, I don’t see the point, I understand that sometimes a war is just, Most times, it feels like a bust. A waste of money, A waste of time, A waste of precious human lives. All for what? Some measly land? How greed corrupts the righteous hands. So the hill I will die on, Is that some battles aren’t worth fighting, That they aren’t worth the pain. The lives they ruin, The families they break, The friendships covered in contusions, The human souls that are broken and bruised. All for what?
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May 7, 2025
May 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC
Shorter Poem #21 "The Hill I Will Die On"
The wagon rode, laden with dreams, Of clear happiness and fairy love. His path was hilly, full of trees. But he rode brightly inspite of. The wagon rode and galloped slowly Without any troubles and fears. The sun shined to him tenderly And forest gave him pure cheers. The wagon rode and breathed a peace. He went so breezily and calm. It seemed that nobody again, Never and never do him harm. The wagon rode on tiny rocks. And now he have to started home. His home is sunless and no cheers. His home is gloomy catacomb.
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Apr 1, 2025
Apr 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM UTC
The wagon
Up on the hill there's a plastic tree, Are you here with me? Is it another dream, Or are you close to me? Let’s set out at sea, Spree to where you're close to me. Cause you are my love, My medicine that turns me into a dove. When you're close to me, In the submarine, Does anyone know, love? Or is this another dream? If you can't get what you want, Then come with me. Close to me, Like the plastic tree. Up on the hill sits a manatee, Drifted far from the sea. Sitting with the plastic tree, Are you here with me? Just looking out for the day, Just a dream but wont you stay? Cause when there's a plastic tree, You're close to me.
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Feb 9, 2025
Feb 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM UTC
#4. MELANCHOLY HILL
Paved roads of cars that roam Are sure to grow weary on my bones. And there’s a high hill close to home Onto which I seldom venture alone. How I recall those many days of yore When we’d go fresh out in the morn; And up that hill now far across the globe Would stare for short eons into the fog.
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Jan 22, 2025
Jan 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM UTC
Float Along the Hills (2022)
~for Jill~ “from your messages” elsewhere scribed, a confession that your comments be challenges like cool well water drawn, a fresh mix and minx, a two flavored scoop on a waffle (or sugar) cone, mmm call mine, flavors of inspiration and aspirations it’s 2:46am, one would think that a deadrose would know better behavior, but up is up, and down down down-come tumbling words, as usual, each screeching hoarsely “pick me, pick me!” uncover your note of appreciation, side splitting laugh in shame and shock, that spellcheck has altered intent, one day, likely a  cause of a war, or e v e n a new poem peddle a rose became “pedal a rose,” invitingly nonsensical, my point exactly but the awake-too-late idiot, can’t stop me now ~ urgency has mastered my     common sensibility, thus        commanded me to write and shine somewhere nearby,(1) babies be borning, and flippers of coins, old humans too, be expiring on the sell-by-date some surrounded, yet all surrendering Angels sent to both sides now, to ferry them back home, their adventures completed or a preface begun Oh for the ferryman to ferry them across rivers whistling hello my darlings, to a new home, with a clean writing tablet to inscribe their owned future or past, making their case for a future or a memorized posterity I am dancing on the edge of that first category, dancing tap before that ——, unwilling to cross over and the angel sent with collection papers, mine and JoeBideen, can’t touch us yet, while in the middle of our latest composition (ya didn’t know?) where in the world has this to do with pedaling roses? the angels offer enticements, write like the great ones, sit at the feet of Leonard & Sylvia, get introduced to the author of “Leaves of Grass,” who will amend and correct (using spellcheck) your own new scriptures for rules From Above, are carefully careless, and don’t care about impossibility so leap with me, onto a bicycle of roses, each pedal a petal, each tire of woven stems, our destination is everywhere, our purpose to bring scent to those who still have need to breathe, and those’d who have ceased being needy forever filling nostrils with colors of roses, and finding poems on the floor, full writ, purposely scribbled and scripted for just a jilly one, (just like this one) just lacking a title, just lacking a name, customed for a single customer, now a custodian of a new born baby poem ready to be fedex’d to its new owner and deposited in the this bank here, right here so thank you for revealing my inadvertent typo, and aiding in my quest to bring it to a new life, but must petal on, for new babies are being born and need wrapping in a a bed sheets of white petals, fresh happily donated from living roses! 3:19am
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Oct 1, 2024
Oct 1, 2024 at 2:43 AM UTC
pedaling Jilly roses
~for Jill~ “from your messages” elsewhere scribed, a confession that your comments be challenges like cool well water drawn, a fresh mix and minx, a two flavored scoop on a waffle (or sugar) cone, mmm call mine, flavors of inspiration and aspirations it’s 2:46am, one would think that a deadrose would know better behavior, but up is up, and down down down-come tumbling words, as usual, each screeching hoarsely “pick me, pick me!” uncover your note of appreciation, side splitting laugh in shame and shock, that spellcheck has altered intent, one day, likely a  cause of a war, or e v e n a new poem peddle a rose became “pedal a rose,” invitingly nonsensical, my point exactly but the awake-too-late idiot, can’t stop me now ~ urgency has mastered my     common sensibility, thus        commanded me to write and shine somewhere nearby,(1) babies be borning, and flippers of coins, old humans too, be expiring on the sell-by-date some surrounded, yet all surrendering Angels sent to both sides now, to ferry them back home, their adventures completed or a preface begun Oh for the ferryman to ferry them across rivers whistling hello my darlings, to a new home, with a clean writing tablet to inscribe their owned future or past, making their case for a future or a memorized posterity I am dancing on the edge of that first category, dancing tap before that ——, unwilling to cross over and the angel sent with collection papers, mine and JoeBideen, can’t touch us yet, while in the middle of our latest composition (ya didn’t know?) where in the world has this to do with pedaling roses? the angels offer enticements, write like the great ones, sit at the feet of Leonard & Sylvia, get introduced to the author of “Leaves of Grass,” who will amend and correct (using spellcheck) your own new scriptures for rules From Above, are carefully careless, and don’t care about impossibility so leap with me, onto a bicycle of roses, each pedal a petal, each tire of woven stems, our destination is everywhere, our purpose to bring scent to those who still have need to breathe, and those’d who have ceased being needy forever filling nostrils with colors of roses, and finding poems on the floor, full writ, purposely scribbled and scripted for just a jilly one, (just like this one) just lacking a title, just lacking a name, customed for a single customer, now a custodian of a new born baby poem ready to be fedex’d to its new owner and deposited in the this bank here, right here so thank you for revealing my inadvertent typo, and aiding in my quest to bring it to a new life, but must petal on, for new babies are being born and need wrapping in a a bed sheets of white petals, fresh happily donated from living roses! 3:19am
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Take the Fragrance from the Flowers and the Garden will lose its Charm. Take the Hands away from the Clock and Time won't ring an Alarm. Take the Violin, from the Symphony and the Dance Floor begins to Sigh. Take the Rain, from the April Showers and the Ground will begin to Cry. Take the Tidal Waves, from the Ocean and the Waters will be Calm and Still. Take the Landscape from the Mountains and the Sun won't set behind the Hill. If U take away My Heart. The beatings are still there Within. I'll Love U forever and ever, As your Heart is neatly tucked In.
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Sep 1, 2023
Sep 1, 2023 at 8:28 AM UTC
If U take away My Heart
It’s only a short straight hill (First Poem.of the Year) “I'm 69, newly homeless, and can't wait to start the journey of a creative life after being asleep for so long. It's only a short straight hill and I'll be on a path into a new life.” Jeremiah B Xxxxxx Jr. <?> it is 4:11am on the first day of a new year. a year is a unit; mathematically measurable, defined, calculable, divisible by seconds, minutes, hours & days, all artifices, mutually acknowledged. you, & others, remind me too easily, that the creative is the only path to endless, (a unit immeasurable) reinvigorating life. your fragrant optimium optimism is stun gun overpowering, the ill defined, but instantly understood, immeasurable distance, you foresee to life better is conquerable! ”only a short straight hill” imbues me to lift head, heart, arm & unloved dried ink pen, to pen, to unpack, to speak, of all that needs climbing, over the artificial lines of the first unit of time: a new year. thank you. Sun Jan 1 2023 NYC
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Jan 1, 2023
Jan 1, 2023 at 7:54 AM UTC
It’s only a short straight hill
21/11/3 the grass on the hill speaks nothing until our ears open with age and the demons dark will loses meaning the soft melody of piece sends a thrill to the harbor of will and causes a self into being action a skill learned from birth to grave we pay not attention to continous pain and we travel
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Jun 6, 2022
Jun 6, 2022 at 3:35 PM UTC
the hill
I was a child, then. When a stormy sea filled the air with hope, and salt. And there were hills to climb, to sit with you at the very top, in silent darkness. Where we held our breath and lied to ourselves, about what was wrong or right. The years passed us by. On that hill beside the ocean, where we consummated our long-awaited desires, and I felt sparkles on your lips; The same hill under which I found my reflection in a muddy pool of water. The grass beside it was so fine, and so green. A park bench at the top of a sunset hike through the native valley, in full bloom—wildflowers reflected our openness. Sandpapery stubble on your cheeks matched the texture between my thighs, which I kept only for you and nobody else. The day I knew you would never be back, the empty voicemail box, the repetition in rising each morning, without you.
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Mar 25, 2022
Mar 25, 2022 at 5:14 AM UTC
Ascend With Me, To Nowhere
Paved roads of cars that roam Are sure to grow weary on my bones. And there’s a high hill close to home Onto which I seldom venture alone. How I recall those many days of yore When we’d go fresh out in the morn; And up that hill now far across the globe Would stare for short eons into the fog.
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Mar 21, 2022
Mar 21, 2022 at 8:24 PM UTC
Float Along the Hills (2022)
Rhythmic Tearing Cow on grass Settling rooks Cross sky All around Sound playing Scent On wind Descending Sun Gold leafing The horizon Obscuration Veiling arc And furrow Crop And shadow Poplar lined Fields below Quiet here Above A moment Passes Contrast sharpens Trees recede Into darkness Sun bleeds Into Earth
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Apr 18, 2021
Apr 18, 2021 at 7:18 AM UTC
Wittenham Obscuration
Climb that hill My teachers said When they saw the words on the page I climb the hill now With the words in my head And a notebook as my stage
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Feb 12, 2021
Feb 12, 2021 at 2:37 PM UTC
The Notebook Is My Stage
At the top of a hill in a land far away, stands a seedling alone; its leaves quietly sway. It has nowhere to hide from the blistering sun; there's no shield from the winds that frequently run. Empty land – there isn't a bush nor a tree nearby. It grows there all alone, but it is getting by... On the nights full of rain and frightening lightning, through a quiver of fear, it would stay there fighting: "I want one day to grow to a big, mighty tree with a trunk wide and strong that no wind could bend me!" Its small roots would absorb murky water from storms and by morning it smiles as a new leaf bud forms. Leaf by leaf, day by day, this small seedling gets bigger. Twig by twig, year by year; to grow large it is eager. On occasion it would get a visit or two: cheerful birds from the sky would come down to say Hi, and a fluffy white rabbit would drop by, out of habit; friendly ants, butterflies, and at night fireflies— all would merrily chatter but too soon all would scatter. With a smile, the seedling would request them to stay but would always hear back: "I must be on my way!" One day, curious, it asked: "On your way, where to?" "To the woods down the hill, full of trees just like you!" "Full of trees just like me..." no one heard it whisper rustling leaves, as the air around it got crisper. Leaf by leaf, day by day, it still grows but looks small. Twig by twig, year by year; it's alone, after all. Having grown tall enough, the seedling now sees it— past the field down the hill—the one place all birds visit: a majestic forest stretching wide—a green sea! —with tall pines, mighty oaks, and other grown trees. What a beautiful sight! It just can't turn away! Wishes strongly the seedling, to be there one day. It dreams of gentle sounds running through the lush crowns, of the comforting shade that the woods surely make. Stretching branches—now long!— wishes it to belong... Leaf by leaf, day by day, cries the seedling... "Unfair!" Twig by twig, year by year; "Why do I grow out here?" Very lonely, the seedling remains on the hill, casting shadows dark, broad, keeping leaves very still. Hoping that through the years, it will stop being sad, and will once again notice that this place isn't bad. It is there for a reason not easily seen: for the birds and rabbits, it's a sheltering tree. When they stop to say Hi, coming down from the sky, they are looking for shelter from a summer day's swelter or a comforting shoulder on the days that are colder. Leaf by leaf, day by day, now an oak, it's grown tall. Twig by twig, year by year; it's alright, after all. On a very nice day, after cold driving rain, in the grass, not too far, it saw something bizarre— the sight so peculiar and oddly familiar— a seedling so tiny it looked almost funny! But the sun was hot—scorching, to the seedling's misfortune. And the leaves were trembling, their form too much resembling of the oak's lonely past. Stretching branches, lush, vast, it protected the youngling that was, clearly, struggling. In the comforting shade, it could stay unafraid. *** At the top of a hill in a land far away, grow a seedling and oak; their leaves quietly sway.
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Jan 16, 2021
Jan 16, 2021 at 4:52 PM UTC
Leaf by Leaf
At the top of a hill in a land far away, stands a seedling alone; its leaves quietly sway. It has nowhere to hide from the blistering sun; there's no shield from the winds that frequently run. Empty land – there isn't a bush nor a tree nearby. It grows there all alone, but it is getting by... On the nights full of rain and frightening lightning, through a quiver of fear, it would stay there fighting: "I want one day to grow to a big, mighty tree with a trunk wide and strong that no wind could bend me!" Its small roots would absorb murky water from storms and by morning it smiles as a new leaf bud forms. Leaf by leaf, day by day, this small seedling gets bigger. Twig by twig, year by year; to grow large it is eager. On occasion it would get a visit or two: cheerful birds from the sky would come down to say Hi, and a fluffy white rabbit would drop by, out of habit; friendly ants, butterflies, and at night fireflies— all would merrily chatter but too soon all would scatter. With a smile, the seedling would request them to stay but would always hear back: "I must be on my way!" One day, curious, it asked: "On your way, where to?" "To the woods down the hill, full of trees just like you!" "Full of trees just like me..." no one heard it whisper rustling leaves, as the air around it got crisper. Leaf by leaf, day by day, it still grows but looks small. Twig by twig, year by year; it's alone, after all. Having grown tall enough, the seedling now sees it— past the field down the hill—the one place all birds visit: a majestic forest stretching wide—a green sea! —with tall pines, mighty oaks, and other grown trees. What a beautiful sight! It just can't turn away! Wishes strongly the seedling, to be there one day. It dreams of gentle sounds running through the lush crowns, of the comforting shade that the woods surely make. Stretching branches—now long!— wishes it to belong... Leaf by leaf, day by day, cries the seedling... "Unfair!" Twig by twig, year by year; "Why do I grow out here?" Very lonely, the seedling remains on the hill, casting shadows dark, broad, keeping leaves very still. Hoping that through the years, it will stop being sad, and will once again notice that this place isn't bad. It is there for a reason not easily seen: for the birds and rabbits, it's a sheltering tree. When they stop to say Hi, coming down from the sky, they are looking for shelter from a summer day's swelter or a comforting shoulder on the days that are colder. Leaf by leaf, day by day, now an oak, it's grown tall. Twig by twig, year by year; it's alright, after all. On a very nice day, after cold driving rain, in the grass, not too far, it saw something bizarre— the sight so peculiar and oddly familiar— a seedling so tiny it looked almost funny! But the sun was hot—scorching, to the seedling's misfortune. And the leaves were trembling, their form too much resembling of the oak's lonely past. Stretching branches, lush, vast, it protected the youngling that was, clearly, struggling. In the comforting shade, it could stay unafraid. *** At the top of a hill in a land far away, grow a seedling and oak; their leaves quietly sway.
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