Zywa In the woods

If you are lucky, you will grow
slowly
sheltered by family

You begin at the beginning:
networking
in the ground

You eat slowly, make
every muscle fibre strong
inch by inch

and form a firm skin
to become a giant
as then

when there were no people yet
and you could count life
in ages, in thousands

of new moons, in years
that still are breathing
in the woods

Poem 2025
Amsterdam, 2019-01-12
Book "Das geheime Leben der Bäume"
Collection: New Ago
Keyword: Life: balance 
Tribute to: Wohlleben, Peter 
 


Zywa What's going on

The little beech tree
in the forest looks up
to its family

the high crowns of wisdom
of hundreds of seasons
of the time she cannot yet count

the order of the world
the time to be young
and know little

the time to be patient
to be small and to know
you're not short of anything

may eat from the toes
of the aunts
who teach you everything

Electrically
they give signals
The microbes and the threads

of fungus tell
what's going on
with fragrances and bright colours

the leaves speak
the blossoms sing
they call animals

for help in case of danger -
Life is performing miracles
together

Poem 1422
Amsterdam, 2017-06-19
Book "Das geheime Leben der Bäume"
Collection: New Ago
Keyword: Together: connected 
Tribute to: Wohlleben, Peter 
 

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