Find Your Perfect Mentor in a Tree

April 24, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is trees in honor of Arbor Day, which falls on April 28.

Today’s poem is a number poem for an actress, urging her to be like a tree.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Find your perfect mentor in a tree,

In something rooted firmly to the ground,

Free to soar up high into the heavens,

To reach for light, to shimmer, to astound,

Yet also to reach deep where none can see.

So might your roots explore the rich, dark soil

Even as your branches seek the sun,

Vested in the gift you have been given,

Evangelist of beauty, passionate one,

Not able to tell ecstasy from toil.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/findy2.html. For more poems for Arbor Day, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/arbordaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Trees

April 24: Find Your Perfect Mentor in a Tree