Yesterday, for Write Out, the theme for the daily writing prompt was about understanding how trees communicate. Park Ranger Mackenzie from the Sequoia National Park introduced the daily prompt (see the Write Out page where all prompts will go live each of the two weeks of the event)
My students wrote about it in their Google Classroom spaces and during our free-writing time in class, I composed a few small poems about trees, roots, leaves and more.
Three Poems; Falling
First Branch
Percussive
drops drain
these trees —
Arbor leaves sing
like cymbals
Dripping Autumn rains
find rhythms all their own
Second Branch
Every leaf
might contain
a map –
each vein and vessel
an artery line
to somewhere close –
traversing root to trunk
to branch to stem –
pure electrical pulse:
invisible
communicated
connected
Third Branch
If canopy
was ground
and ground
was sky
I’d
T
U
M
B
L
E
from your branch
and wonder why
Peace (even if you can’t see it),
Kevin