FRANGIPANI – The World Within A Tree

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.

Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks

 

I have long been taken by the endless generosity of trees.  They are more than human to me, and hence I refer to them with human sounding pronouns, such as she or her instead of it.   As a child, I relied on the elm tree in our front y...