Gum Trees. A poem and Reflections

 

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My Favourite Trees

Gum trees always 

take me back

to younger days:

cross country journeys,

ribbon roads,

endless train tracks,

tyre song

and shaded laybys,

flasks of tea

and sandwiches 

of yesteryear 

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Do you have a favourite tree? A tree which evokes emotion within you? A tree which brings back childhood memories? Memories of sweet, golden days? Do the leaves whisper long ago snatches of laughter and conversation, making you long to go back? I feel that way about gum trees. Such ordinary trees. An invasive species where we live actually. They stir my heart.

Far better though, than any earthly tree, is the heavenly tree of life, which one day we shall see.

"The angel also showed me the river of the water of life, sparkling like crystal, and coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb and flowing down the middle of the city's street. On each side of the river was the tree of life, which bears fruit twelve times a year, once each month; and its leaves are for the healing of the nation's. Nothing that is under God's curse will be found in the city."

Revelation 22:1-3 GNB

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Copyright: Alison Lawrence