Happy Tu b'shevat!

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To see a tree

Is to witness a place

Where G-d kissed the earth

And the power of each kiss

Makes roots to grow

And reach so deep

And trunks to form

And branches to extend

And leaves to grow

Flower to boom

And fruit to bear.

Each kiss creates

A tree not like

Any other

Its attributes unique.

And the gift of the kiss

Keeps giving long after

It has touched this earth

The tree is then the giver

Of sight, shade, fruit,

Flower, wood

And even in its

Death, the kiss keeps

Giving…to the soil

That nourished it

..to future trees

…to the earth
...and back to heaven again  ©

(I.M.Danneman)