Hatchet Man

A hatchet man's encounter with a tree.

Hatchet Man

 

On this little biosphere
seasons come and go.
Hatchet Man is coming near
with his fatal blow.

 

If I had a voice, I'd sneer
at my mortal foe.
He won't see my sappy tear
pouring down so slow.

 

My leaves clear the atmosphere
of a toxic woe
to make climate less severe.
My limbs nest the crow.

 

As I die, my only fear
is a dread I stow
for those friends whom I hold dear
who need me to grow.

Reviews

[NeiL ArandA]

What a wonderful personification here Aethereal. The tree here is obviously a person or someone that has great influence or a benefit to a society. But also there are those who would like to be a destroyer than builders. And tear people down and make life harder for them. I also admire the symbiotic relationship that everyone contributes in your piece. Everyone great and small has role and space to play and fill.
And when that someone or somebody is gone that great influence and mentor creates a big void that no one could replace or fill ..

Beautiful piece again ...

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your detailed review, Neil! People don't know what they have 'til it's gone.

[NeiL ArandA]

I certainly agree with what you said there ...

[Aethereal]

"They destroyed paradise, and built up a parking lot ... " From an old hippy song that I once heard on the radio as a child.

[Tom]

What can take centuries to grow felled in minutes! An epic poem in support of natures noble trees if only mankind would show a little more thought and decorum !

Another splendid piece Aethereal, so glad I came across this little gem !

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your insightful review, Tom! We have more in common with trees than what most people understand.

[Tom]

You are so right there my friend !!!

[Nia Hope]

I love this definitely a different view :)

[Aethereal]

Thanks, Ankara!

[icelandicblue]

I just found a paper I wrote in 3rd or 4th grade and one of the things I was thankful for was trees. I love your environmentally sensitive poem.

[Aethereal]

Thanks, blue! Trees give and give asking nothing in return but to be left in peace.

[Rita L. Sev]

Though I live in the city, we are lucky to live close to the woods, where trees abound, and are protected. They are my companions as I walk each day. You have done justice by giving a voice to the trees...

Love this line:
He won't see my sappy tear
pouring down so slow...

Very clever image. Nicely penned, Aethereal.

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your detailed review, Rita! I live among the trees in the woods, and I'd rather not live anywhere else. I notice everything about them as they change from season to season. I'm looking forward to the changing of leaves in the Fall. Cities are far from being hallmarks of civilization if they exchange Nature's beauty for concrete, glass, steel, and tar.

[Aziz Luther]

Wonderful writing well done. I love this poem

[Aethereal]

Thanks, Aziz! It seems that you have empathy for trees.

[Rahul]

Awesome write came right from the bottom of your heart. :) I'm speechless here what to write in my review :) 200/100 :)

[Aethereal]

Thanks, Rahul! I live in the woods among my friends the trees, and all the little animals who depend on 'em for their survival.

[Rahul]

okey, don't you live with yer family may i ask ?

[Rahul]

okey, don't you live with yer family may i ask ?

[Aethereal]

I live in my own house in the woods. I'm not city folk. I'd rather not get into too much more of my personal life cuz I'm all about my poetry on here and not so much myself. This is why I'm not on Facebook. Facebook is too intrusive as far as one's personal life goes.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i like the allegory here...when we die we often feel most for those we leave behind, and for the pain they will feel....

we move on to something else, and can only hope they will be able to move on also...

they will cry some sap...but still continue to grow as strong trees...

nicely done.

jacob

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your detailed review, jacob! Not only shall other trees miss this tree after she's gone, but all the animals in the forest as well as humanity itself have needed the benefits of trees within our ecology to grow and thrive. In fact without trees, I'm not so sure that we would have existed at all on this planet. Before apes could climb down from the trees to evolve into Charles Darwin, there had to be trees to feed them, and climb down from. At one time, millions of happy hominoids swinging through trees feeding on fruit must have seemed like a Garden of Eden. Perhaps if we had stayed away from that Apple Tree of Knowledge and Intelligence, then our Garden would not have been abandoned for harsh concrete jungles and bloody battlefields.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

amen! to what you say here.

[Sami Khalil]

A splendid read and write...:)

[Aethereal]

Thanks, Sami! Since trees can't speak for themselves, then we must speak as 'em.

[Sami Khalil]

True. You are welcome...:)