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Looking for a poem.. Please help - 8/23/2010 7:10:06 PM

submommy4you

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I am looking for the poem about a "tree" that is nurturing and caring for.... It relates to the master slave relationship. Thank you for your help :)

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RE: Looking for a poem.. Please help - 8/23/2010 7:18:12 PM

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Any chance you're thinking of the book, The Giving Tree?

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RE: Looking for a poem.. Please help - 8/23/2010 7:20:02 PM

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Is this kinda of what you were looking for?

Waiting for a Message
by Rochelle Mass

Trees help you see slices of sky between branches,
point to things you could never reach.

Trees help you watch the growing happen,
watch blossoms burst then dry,
see shade twist to the pace of a sun,
birds tear at unwilling seeds.

Trees take the eye to where it is,
where it was,
then over to distant hills,
faraway to other places and times,
long ago.

A tree is a lens,
a viewfinder, a window.

I wait below
for a message
of what is yet to come.

edited for clarity.

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RE: Looking for a poem.. Please help - 8/23/2010 7:39:34 PM

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No sorry, this poem was referred to me to read by another on here a while ago and I have lost the link. I don't remember all of it but it goes a little like this:

very big tree with its branches it will shield from....
it will still be there even when she is no more...

it was based on a Master slave relationship....

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RE: Looking for a poem.. Please help - 8/23/2010 7:48:31 PM

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Hmmmm I do not know of that poem. Sorry I am of no help.

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RE: Looking for a poem.. Please help - 8/23/2010 7:56:01 PM

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I appreciate your effort and time ... thank you :)

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RE: Looking for a poem.. Please help - 8/23/2010 8:24:43 PM

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I am pretty sure its not this one:

Green sprout from a withered limb,
eagerly seeking the sun.
Unfolding at Masters whim
a new birth has just begun.

No blossoms yet, grace her stem.
her beauty shimmers unseen.
A slumbering bud, deep within,
glorious in fragrant sheen.

Awaken sweet silent bud,
Unfold come forth, it is spring.
Awaken to Master's touch
surrender your precious seed.

The winds they blow, not to spoil,
but to carry in their hands.
precious seed to fertile soil
far from barren wasted lands.

It would be weird if it was.

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RE: Looking for a poem.. Please help - 8/23/2010 8:35:52 PM

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quote:

it was based on a Master slave relationship....

While The Giving Tree is a children's poem, Siverstein did indeed have a master/slave relationship in mind.

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RE: Looking for a poem.. Please help - 8/23/2010 8:37:16 PM

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RE: Looking for a poem.. Please help - 9/7/2010 2:41:24 PM

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This might be what you're looking for, or something similar. I did a quick search, & after a few pages of searching this was the closest I could find. Hope you enjoy.

Pruning
Johanna Herrick

I prune my lime tree
under the luminous moon
of early evening. The citrus
smell of broken leaves
is pungent and wonderful.
I know the cutting will make
the tree stronger, more beautiful.
It trusts me and responds to the pain,
for already, even the order of shaping
has produced a different mood for us;
the discarded sprigs on the ground
ring the tree like a variegated lime lei,
my offering to this faithful tree,
my promise that things will change
between us. As I pause in the process
breathe, observe, feel
I encounter the tree, ceasing
to be an "it"and transforming
itself into Buber's "Thou."
In this new, reciprocal relationship,
we move toward holiness, the tree and I,
as I whisper, "You, tree."

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RE: Looking for a poem.. Please help - 9/7/2010 10:49:10 PM

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Redbottomgirl,
A lovely poem indeed, insightful. I've never had the pleasure of viewing before, Thank you for your research and posting of it.

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