Monday, May 4, 2015

Carpe Diem - the oak

its tender roots
embrace the bones of dead -
a churchyard oak

Linked to Carpe Diem

12 comments:

  1. This is very poignant...love the idea of roots embracing:)

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  2. Love this, Bjorn -- have often thought I'd like to be buried among great oaks :)

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  3. Well, you got the contrast there! Cheryl's point of view interesting also

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  4. well ... you've left me wordless ...

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  5. Dug deeply in couple words...

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  6. Dug deeply in couple words...

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  7. I've always wanted to be cremated, but after reading your haiku, I might consider burial---in the right churchyard with the right oak!

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  8. This is really good but I can't help feeling a bit unnerved - guess I just don't like to think about being dead, however comforting the oaks are

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  9. Wonderful image to be embraced in death. And then with all the tornadoes tonight I thought of the tree being uprooted and there you go, resurrection.

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  10. Wow.

    Thanks for visiting. Another quake there would be very devastating. It was sparsely populated then. We are just free of major damage line but our area would be in charge of rescue and refugees.

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  11. You've captured the spirit of haiku ...

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  12. WOW! Very spiritual take Björn ... as I look to the deeper meaning of the Oak (according to Celtic Mystic) the Oak is the entrance to higher consciousness and wisdom ... a gate to an all new world full of mystery and magic. Chapeau!

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