Hello Kailashana...

Good to see you back and posting a poem in your inimitable style.

Regards,

Far too many ancient trees have been sacrificed to progress. I see entire forests of old growth mixed timber clear cut then planted entirely in pine trees....sigh. I guess all I can do is treat the few acres I own as what they are, irreplacable. Good to see you back and hope all is well with you and yours......stan

If only mankind can learn to preserve more of the trees, we might learn much more about nature and appreciate it better. At least that is what I thought. Alas, Man in his quest to spread civilisation has failed to form a balance here.

Alid

Good to see you posting poetry again.
As usual, I see that the cost of building a sidewalk AROUND a tree, and, I'm betting, the money they'll make from its dead corpse, are more important than keeping something like an old Sycamore alive. I'm with Stan - buy as much land as you can, and keep it safe.
A good poem, Anna.

So many things are changed in our lives, even the trees we love are taken away and replaced by either as Stan says Pine trees or concrete jungles.
You must plant the great grandfather in a place they cannot touch him, your memory will do for now then when you leave to go to where ever he will be there to give you shade.
Take care young Lady and know it is real great having you here writing again, Yours Ian .T

In the village down the road there are Oak trees that were planted on most main anniversaries from Queen Victoria 's Diamond one in 1901, to several coronations since that time .
Just a few miles more and there is Sherwood forest with Oak trees that go back to Richard 1st time they say the oldest one is where Robin Hood was active,
The strange one we have here are the Yew trees in the churchyards, they date back hundreds of years, it use to be law that on Sunday any boy over the age of Sixteen had to go to the Butts that were usually behind the churches, and there they would have to practice with the Long Bow.
The Long Bow is made from the Yew trees wood and is part hard wood and part soft wood to give it a flexibility, I believe that the church was in charge of the trees, King Henry the 8ths ship the Mary Rose they recovered had long bow woods on it, they looked as good as new the ship sank in the 1500's it was Henry's Flag ship, it or what is left of it is in Portsmouth navel museum, I have been to see it.
I will have to go now, take care young Lady and lovey to see you here, Yours Ian.T

But I knew a few girls who did this before Univercity
and met people on the west coast who raise their kids in school buses
and follow the logging contracts planting on complete clear cuts..
I met a nice brunette when I was living in the Motel and bar...
she was a tree planter...
And I worked for a pole line contractor.....we put in poles and anchors
and we had to cut down trees for pole lines.....We got taught how
to do all the logging cuts.....Handle the fastest longest bar best
chain saws of the time! and sometimes like this tree we had
to pull up and cut it all down..chip up its limbs etc.......Very sad..
Liability for damage and death from trees in urban areas today
are a big reason for their removal..and the wind storms of late
pretty much got a lot of homeowners to cut the potential risks
down......The darkness cast by the foliage and the decorative
shrubs are trimmed down as society gets more daring..
Vigilance a big motivator to see whats there rather then put
a shrub wild for people to lurk in and hide..

If a trees healthy there should be no reason to remove it...
but more often they are seen as a liability....
Trees I find are very powerful.....
deforestation is a big issue
all our old growth in ontario is gone
a lot of the original....

You have lost an old friend

A very excellent poem
on what we Love grieve and miss

thank you