Tree: <br /> <br />Oh! The leaves talk with me <br /> <br />And make green my heart <br /> <br />Full of peace, love and youthfulness <br /> <br />Inspiring me, my near and dear! <br /> <br /> <br />Oh! The trunk speaks with me <br /> <br />Makes me strong and erect <br /> <br />In life to follow <br /> <br />Path truthful and straight <br /> <br /> <br />The branches instruct me <br /> <br />To spread into space around <br /> <br />To receive light of knowledge <br /> <br />From all directions and ways <br /> <br /> <br />The flowers full of honey moving rhythmic in the breeze <br /> <br />And ask my heart to be soft, sweet and move for fellow-beings; <br /> <br />Teach me to be soft, pleasant to look and scattering fragrance <br /> <br />And transform into fruit <br /> <br />Ripening, carrying seeds for reproduction <br /> <br /> <br />Fruits yellow gently tell me <br /> <br />To become mature and enlightened <br /> <br />With ripened mind and spread <br /> <br />Enlightenment, delight, peace, bliss, love and silence <br /> <br />The roots ask me to protrude deep into the knowledge <br /> <br />And get nourished and wetness for sustenance, <br /> <br />Remain lively and live full of life the life <br /> <br /> <br />The tree as a whole tells me <br /> <br />To be caring and useful <br /> <br />To fellow beings using all my <br /> <br />Assets and actions for the welfare of the life and the living <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />River: <br /> <br />River teaches me <br /> <br />How to advance from <br /> <br />Humble beginnings <br /> <br />To become more and large <br /> <br /> <br />Acquire energy to <br /> <br />Pass through ups and downs <br /> <br />To produce streams and falls; <br /> <br /> <br />Be swifter with current <br /> <br />Giving power to one and all <br /> <br />From steep falls; <br /> <br /> <br />Then become gentle flow in plains; <br /> <br />When checked by hurdles and obstacles <br /> <br />Ready to flow through channels <br /> <br />Giving sustenance to crops, and humans <br /> <br />And quench the thirsts; <br /> <br /> <br />Then meander to join the <br /> <br />Sea of Divinity dissolving identity in the Union <br /> <br />In the final moments<br /><br />Varanasi Ramabrahmam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nature-the-teacher-lessons-from-tree-and-river/
