TREES CRY

For Tovli's Ten Word Contest on "Cats" ~ no more than ten lines with these "ten"... boiling, leaves, darkening, cup, reprimand, unspoken, implicit, authority,defense,endless

 

 

Her temper at boiling point and I, squinting in the winter sun  hide behind the blinds.
Deafening noise of the chain saw and the darkening  of the saddened sky heralds the death of the tree that she couldn’t save.  With words unspoken between us, we ponder the fate of the rainbow lorikeets and the numerous array of native birds that will no longer color the green leaves.

She grieving its demise and exodus of birds...I mourning the sport of trying to catch them,
as we sat together in happy days  sunning ourselves...she reading with cup of tea in hand and issuing to me a reprimand in defense of any hungry bird venturing too close whilst feeding on the yellow blossoms…
 

The authority of those in charge of these things gave implicit instructions to lop it down, regardless....
our tree that gave us umbrella shade on hot endless summer days... 

They say trees cry out in pain as they die, well I think we both died a little that day....
certainly we cried enough tears that would have watered our beloved tree for a long, long time to come ~

 

© BY: OSCAR  ~ June 2009

(Helena's much loved Seal-Point Siamese just for the love of it!)    

  

 

Author's Note

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my words.
Be kind to me as its my first poem here at W.C. OSCAR ;)

Reviews

[papaed]

Trees are precious, cats are wonderful. You've expressed both of these sentiments well, Oscar. You used the words in the challenge well also. Congratulations.
Thanks for joining in. I look forward to more writing from you.

papaed

[Tovli]

you old man! Ike agrees--like owner, like human you can really use those paws to write! tovli