The Meanings of Trees

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The placement of the painting makes it face

Towards the ancient spreading oak tree there

Beyond his window pane as if the place

For weeping cherry tree were made to pair

“Weeping Cherry” acrylic on heart wood by Charles Randall Stanfield

With longer life of loveliness, large limbs

Of stronger life were made to pair with paint

And be more like unending white-winged hymns

From curly heads of angels set by saint

And martyr up in highest heaven above

Where Lucifer once gloried where he stained

Perfection in the endless realm of love

Desiring to be wider than ordained.

  The frailty of pink cherry blossom height

    Is not designed for lightning’s blunder smite.

© Phillip Whidden