We Sea Trees

Caressing her steam from the trunk

Hugging her clouds from her crown

The heart blood is trapped in sap

Awash in the beams, lasers of light
through veins of amber rings

Slice the pillared shadows

Spraying musk that bursts
bark rust forth,
settling for dew
likewise, hanging on
to every loose end.

She breathes you in

as you pass

A sapling too slight

to care whose airs

of mutual aqueous

evanescence is about them

re-membered reaching
and thirsting for the light
to rein down atop our crowns.

Photo of Redwoods By NPS Photo [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Bonsai Sequoia

'Foghorn Leghorn' approximately 10 years old, 2 feet tall

A proud hopeful twig,

A mighty little sprig,

reaches, stretches, grasping for sky-light,

drinking the coastal fog and dew from overnight.

Wise wee wooded sapling,

on your branches birds will sing,

and you will carry their tune,

on timber and echoes-yet not so soon.

Longevity like oozes sap, as the blood in ones vein;

through aortic roots, a statuesque feign-

except for the unmistakable air,

climbing higher than one could dare.

Rings notching decades like days,

breathless moments and canopy sways,

fall like whispers, awe around your burly base,

bursting to the Heavens, you continue to race.

Already you have your bark

eager and preparing to make your mark.

You have been called “Giants among Men”

forests and wilderness from way back when…

Thousands of years, all that you've seen,

optimistically each year peeling virgin green.

A giant sequoia, a prehistoric tree,

Sempre virens, stoically notching eternity.

One day little tree, you will go in the ground,

in a place I’ll make sure is safe and sound.

But for now-

I wish I could say how,

I want you to get really BIG-

and show you are no longer a twig!

I do love watching you grow, forgetting how slow;

and despite the fact that I will never really know,

get to breathe your nectar air-or live to see,

just how big you'll really be.

Photo By Ngresonance at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons