Sunday, September 21, 2008

Spring continues apace


I love trees. But I wouldn't want to be one.

25 comments:

AngryGinger said...

The best life is a fetus. I don't have to do anything except kick my Landlady in the ribs & she still has to have food delivered straight to me.

FreeOscar said...

Autumn has finally come here, & I'm loving it.

Cissy Strutt said...

ag: Yeah, foetuses are good, I guess. But you can't sit under them for shade on a hot day. Maybe I could sit under the Landlady's belly.

cuntie: I do love Autumn & Winter. Apart from anything else, one can neglect one's depilation in the colder months!

Sara Sue said...

BUT ... if you were to be one ... which one would ye be?

Sara Sue said...

My Answer: The Dogwood.

Cissy Strutt said...

sara sue: Woof!

I think I would be a Moreton Bay Fig.

Malach the Merciless said...

If you like bondage, you would like being a tree.

anaglyph said...

I talk to the trees, but they don't listen to me.

Cissy Strutt said...

malach: That's a big if.

anaglyph: The breeze hasn't time to stop and hear what I say.

Forrest Proper said...

We love our trees. Have a 300-year old maple here, that we are trying to keep alive. Trees are a 365-a-day thing. If you were a tree, I'd be your leaf blower...

does that work?

Not sure. Does it work with vegemite?

Chickie said...

I'd rather see one than to be one.

Cissy Strutt said...

colonel: Everything works with vegemite.

chickie; Very well put.

Joey Polanski said...

This mornin I heard sompm not very good:

Th wind broke quite violently thru th wood.

Cissy Strutt said...

In the woods, the wind blew soft
'Hark', said Joe, 'whose bottom coughed?'

Joey Polanski said...

HAHAHAHAHA!

Forrest Proper said...

The silver setting sun hugs close
among the maples; grey-boned ghosts
march row on row across the ground. Come night, alas,
they’re not yet bound as birds
that sing, against their trees
as night glides in against the day.

The grey of maples,
marked with scars,
shining in among the stars,
as splinters echo
through the night;
the grey and yellow
splinters bare
against the chill
night's frosty air,
which wraps our knees
against our coats,
we huddle close, our
breath makes ghosts,
the starlight beckons,
blazes,
boasts,
a timeless hymn
sung by the free
uncaring void which
sparkles,
marks,
a flaming spark
to light our
ghostly breaths
in grey.

Come,
sit with me
'till break of day.

here today, gone tomorrow said...

Why wouldn't you want to be a tree, cissy?

I would...if I was certain that I'd be left alone to carry on living by a river, bloom, lose branches, endure lightning, woodpeckers and tire swings, and eventually die in my own time, returning to the forest floor.

Joey Polanski said...

Hey, look at me,

A grand ol oak tree,

Th symbol o firmness & might!

Unfortunatly,

I aint so healfy,

My bark bein werse than my blight.

Forrest Proper said...

There was a young tree from Nantucket...

Joey Polanski said...

... whose wood ended up in a bucket.

Forrest Proper said...

HAHAHAHHA!!!!!

Joey Polanski said...

Thats whatcha call tag-team poemin!

Atlas Cerise said...

...if I had more time
I'd think of a rhyme
But I don't, so instead I say fuck it.

Cissy Strutt said...

colonel: Just lovely. sigh.

hereT: Cause I'm a wanderer, yes a wanderer, I roam around around around around around...

But your way sounds wonderful, too.

Joey, Colonel, Atlas: It's a lucky blog that gets your contributions. *sniffles into her hankie (in a ladylike manner naturally)*

Joey Polanski said...

Sarkasm notd.

HAHAHAHAHA!