PEACE from TREES

Eight of 28

As trees from what? As windstorm rain winter to spring? Is that who you are right now? Proposing to an inner most truth that divides from one to two... As self as polarity’s opposite of who you are? To rivulate to stream, to river’s rapids, waterfalls and so much green as rain’s forest flowing down to river’s sea. It’s a time till rain, till rain fills ponds, till rivers, streams, ferocious, territorial, swim us free and then we lose it all in Sun’s drying, till we vanish above earth into tree-trunk-wetland’s sheltered till rain’s return.

As trees from what? As windstorm rain winter to spring, we gather up together to share everything. As egg to eventual alive, as birth-womb to wing return to swimming waters, ponds, streams, rain’s return, we arise from the hollows we sleep in. Warriors who value cooperative dormancy? Who line up peaceful end to end in life’s soil-rot-root of our canopy’s hollowing: How we survive dry times. How the rain re-ponds us, how it brings us home to our leaping from trees, our scattering, wild, wooden-wet ship set free, again territorially.

© 2008 Poem by DeaneTR, Photo by DeaneTR, also a Photo from the Internet
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This series of 28 photo-poems are inspired by recent writings related to forests around the world. The poem above is inspired by the condensed news article below. If you'd like to learn more about forest issues from around the world on a regular basis subscribe to my newsletter / weblog which is called: "Earth's Tree News" and can be viewed on the web at http://www.livejournal.com/users/olyecology or via email by sending a blank message to earthtreenews-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
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It's one of the golden rules of the natural world – birds live in trees, fish live in water. The trouble is, no one bothered to tell the mangrove killifish. Scientists have discovered that it spends several months of every year out of the water and living inside trees. Hidden away inside rotten branches and trunks, the remarkable creatures temporarily alter their biological makeup so they can breathe air. The discovery, along with its ability to breed without a mate, must make the mangrove killifish, Rivulus marmoratus Poey, one of the oddest fish known to man. Around two inches long, they normally live in muddy pools and the flooded burrows of crabs in the mangrove swamps of Florida, Latin American and Caribbean. The latest discovery was made by biologists wading through swamps in Belize and Florida who found hundreds of killifish hiding out of the water in the rotting branches and trunks of trees. The fish had flopped their way to their new homes when their pools of water around the roots of mangroves dried up. Inside the logs, they were lined up end to end along tracks carved out by insects. Dr Scott Taylor of the Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Programme in Florida admitted the creatures were a little odd. "They really don't meet standard behavioural criteria for fish," he told New Scientist magazine. Although the cracks inside logs make a perfect hiding place, conditions can be cramped. The fish – which are usually fiercely territorial – are forced to curb their aggression. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=488193&in_page_id=1770
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There is a shift happening. The ancients told us this time would come . . . the time is here. Things are different in our bodies, our emotions, the very core of our beings seem to be opening to new possibilities. And so we find ourselves in new territory, needing tools to help us navigate and explore our new paradigm of existence. There are many well-known tools for exploring the nature of existence, such as: meditation, yoga, prayer and fasting. Yet I never imagined that my digital camera would become just such a tool. It has done this by allowing me to capture, in a photograph, a glimpse of a greater reality that is peeking through the veil of our three-dimensional limited way of seeing. What does that mean? It means that cameras (especially digital) are now picking up phenomena that exist in different parts of the light spectrum than are normally seen with the naked eye. These phenomena are manifesting in different forms, but one of the most commonly seen in photographs are round glowing spheres of light called "Orbs". I first discovered Orbs about six years ago and became instantly fascinated and enchanted by them. Now, after taking over 20,000 images with Orbs in them, it has become clear to me that there is some form of higher consciousness involved in the phenomenon and that energy of higher vibration is what attracts them. www.greatmystery.org/events/ps08.html

PEACE from TREES