Happy Earth Day!
from Saint Andrew’s xo
Theme: Restore Our Earth
Listening to the Trees
And the birch says it’s about dancing and colour
and the rowan says it’s about berries and buds
and the willow says it’s about shape and shelter
and the hazel says it’s about love and lichen
and the aspen says it’s about growth and wind
and I say it’s about listening to trees
Mandy Haggith
Mandy Haggith is a writer and an environmental campaigner.
She lives on a woodland croft in Assynt, North West Highlands of Scotland.
She is passionate about trees and forests.
She has been campaigning for forests and forest people for years.
In 2013 she compiled ‘Into the Forest’, an anthology of tree poems.
https://www.mandyhaggith.net/rowan.asp
The Heart of the Tree
What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants the friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free, The shaft of beauty, towers high… … These things he plants who plants a tree.
Woodman Spare that Tree
Woodman spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I’ll protect it now…
To read more of these Tree Poems, and others, in full –
go to discoverpoetry.com>poems>poems-about-trees
Be kind…
…to our earth everyday!
