The Master's Plan

I am sure it will outlive me standing long after my own time Taking note of my grandchildren lending life both music and rhyme

Tates Tree Swing

There is a great tree where we live

It's a comfort to have it near

We pass by it every day

it has stood for many a year

 

In the last twenty years or so

as I passed the days of my prime

I found that I kept going back

seeking solace time after time

 

What amounted to years for us

were days in the life of the tree

It stands there stout, towering, firm

be-lying grace that comforts me

 

I'd lie beneath the canopy

where I would stare up at the sky

Watching the leaves blow in the wind

counting the years as they passed by

 

So majestic is this old tree

oh the lives that it's watched over

How many loves have come and gone

amongst the leaves amid clover

 

Yesterday I happened to see

Tate with his girl beneath its arms

Swinging within its warm embrace

while it happily shared its charms

 

I am sure it will outlive me

standing long after my own time

Looking after my grandchildren

sharing love of music and rhyme

 

This tree has watched my son grow up

from a small boy to a young man

Here it stands in graceful beauty

a small piece of the Masters plan

Tate

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Author's Note

The years pass us by so quickly. Sometimes I wonder what has happened to them all. However I am blessed with a loving child who has given me so much. I share these memories with all my friends in reverence to the life and love they have marked.

Reviews

[Danilo Ašanin / ..]

Years go by,we can't do anything about it. People have always been the slaves of time. Not that it's bad or anything. But there are some things that "forever will stay". Love, friendship, tuttoring... Very nice piece,I like it. :)

[Tate Morgan]

Hi Danilo Man its nice to hear from you today. Thank you my friend. Drop me a note

[James Hanna-Magill]

Dear Tate my friend

I wanted to come and review some of your latest writing.

As we both know I am far from well at the moment and life is very hard for me to the point of simply not coping at times.

I am however still trying to review as a distraction.

But I am trying hard to make my reviews shorter, partly because I am too brain dead to do anymore and I am not focussing that well.

I could easily go off on one and write you a book on this piece. But instead I am just going to give you my immediate reactions in review numbered as if to give them some sort of order when actually they are just random thoughts. Thing is in starting this I don't know how long it will be. It will just end at the point it ends and I stop typing:

1) Van Morrison (your link) is a Belfast boy like me. I used to listen to him when I was a child and still do. This is one of my favourites.

2) You talk of trees and their longevity compared to humankind. I immediately react to that as I have a huge honour for trees. In my last home (two acres) before I was divorced, I had fifty foot poplars on the border and a koi pond at whose edges a thirty foot willow wept.

Now in another home (1 acre) in Wales, the property I own has a Welsh name. But in English translation it is called 'Land of the Ash Trees'. The property is lost in the country and surrounded by trees.

Owning a tree is at times I feel one of my greatest pleasures in life.

Occasionally in a storm, one of the trees will come down and I mourn its passing.

Every time I look at a tree I wonder what events it has seen in the past before I was born and what it will see again when I am dead.

3) You talk of family. There is always an affectionate edge to all of your writing. It seems to me you are always honouring an old friend or now your family.

That touches me as I have none of those benefits, when I would prefer it were otherwise.

4) In style the rhyme of the second and forth lines works well and as ever with your writing gives it immediate charm and style.

That's all I can manage to say about it at the moment.

As a review:

Too long?

Too short?

I don't know it's my review and what I am able to say today when my head is full of tranquilising mood stabilisers, four times as much as when I had to be hospitalised.

Does that make this review less worthy because my brain is dulled by drugs?

I can't say Tate.

It's just my review and the only one I can do. But my reviews are always from the heart brain dead or not.

I regard you as a close friend Tate Morgan.

There is a flavour to all your writing I admire.

And one of the reasons I admire it, is that it brings into my mind stuff I have never really experienced, the Wild West, friends and family support.

Poetry is poetry.

Self-expression is self-expression.

It is a free good and harmless in the way you write.

So far from harming anyone you could never imagine.

Charmed by this piece of family affection, Tate

Your rather ill friend


James Hanna-Magill

[James Hanna-Magill]

PS Well it would seem short is still long. It is what it is Tate by way of a review, just as I am who I am, you are who you are and they are who they are - us all in the conjoined web of life on the blue planet we all inhabit and share for a short span. We are all unique and are who we all are. Our similarities may as easily unite as divide, in much the say way as our differences!

[Tate Morgan]

As before the honor is truly mine to have been the recipient of having been immortalized and befriended by what has to be described as an the "Great Magill. I'm so sorry you suffer from the malady that you do. May you be well soon.
As for this poetry site I think to be as they say "Magilled"is an honor for any of us and most desired by all. You obviously read each word carefully and feel every sentence intently. As I once said to my own dear Rebecca. "I am so touched. I lay my pen in reverence upon the ground beside you feet."

[James Hanna-Magill]

Thank you friend, James

[Eddie Phillips]

Time passes so quickly my friend. I see my children and can remember when they were babies. I love the message in this poem Tate. I felt your reverence for the good old days past and the love you have for your child. Thank you for sharing your memories.

[Tate Morgan]

thank you friend I am off to bed .I hope your children grow to be great souls who remember you fondly in years to come.

[A Soap Mess Stories]

it's nice to know that one tree can bring such beautiful memories...

[Tate Morgan]

Hi dear I love that tree .To this day I think it is the place I always go to gather my thoughts and smile.Thank you.

[A Soap Mess Stories]

;-)

[Barbara Walker]

Tate, this is going in my favorites. It's just a beautiful poem It's a great tribute to that tree and what it means to you. Excellent write!

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you Barbara I was at my mothers all day for mothers day having a great time at dinner I hope you did as well Happy Mothers day

[Barbara Walker]

I had a very nice day with family, thank you!

[Constance Payne]

this brings joy to my heart....it is comforting to know that when you pass a particular place in life that sometimes things just barely change giving us a sense of peace.
Very Nicely Written.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you I think this piece touches on a universal truth of our nature humans all humans are attracted to the stoic tree

[Muse]

100/100

Tree's...if only they could talk. They stand witness to our existance. A silent testimony of who and what we are. Their countless rings a representation of minutes..days...and hours that were lived. Beautiful is your story, perfectly penned to capture a priceless moment. Thank you for sharing my friend.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you Beth you are such a dear

[Muse]

why are your ratings off...hard to give you a thumbs up...turn them on...so I can rate..then you can turn them back off...k?

[Brokensoul]

How beautiful is this poem I cannot express in words. It is nostalgic, charming and rhymes and rhythm pace eggs you on to read more. Loved it

[Tate Morgan]

Sonashee Thank you And may i say your photo Is also a beautiful revaluation.

[Brokensoul]

thanks a lot Tate

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

beautiful Tate :)

[Tate Morgan]

thank you so much it always is nice to see them grow. I hope I can grow too lol