POEM: MARY OLIVER
PAINTING: DAVE WAGAR
PHOTOGRAPH: JOYCE WAGAR
Welcome fellow citizen of the earth! In this post I would like you to consider that in addition to humans, other inhabitants of the earth are also citizens. For instance, TREES. Immerse yourself for a while in Dave Wagar’s painting, Mary Oliver’s poem, and Joyce Wagar’s photographs. Contemplate that trees also live in a community where other plants and animals live in harmony with each other. – Tim
IN THE COUNTRY OF TREES
Mary Oliver
There is no king in their country
and there is no queen
and there are no princes vying for power,
inventing corruption.
Just as with us many children are born
and some will live and some will die and the country
will continue.
The weather will always be important.
And there will always be room for the weak, the violets
and the bloodroot.
When it is cold they will be given blankets of leaves.
When it is hot they will be given shade.
And not out of guilt, neither for a year-end deduction
but maybe for the cheer of their colors, their
small flower faces.
They are not like us.
Some will perish to become barns,
fences and bridges.
Others will endure past the counting of years.
And none will ever speak a single word of complaint,
as though language, after all,
did not work well enough, was only an early stage.
Neither do they ever have any questions to the gods-
which one is the real one, and what is the plan.
As though they have been told everything already,
and are content.
CREDIT:
Photographer: Joyce Wagar
Painter: Dave Wagar
Poet: Mary Oliver – From BLUE HORSES
Graphic Designer :Tim Olson
Editors:Lorelie & Tim Olson
NESTER url: https://notesfromanester.com
