The Real LJ Idol * 3 Strikes * Week 4 : "The axe forgets; the tree remembers"

[marlawentmad]

Dryad Grove

Comments

[drippedonpaper]

I really loved how you took "the trees remember" even farther than I had thought...that they are like people in a way. We look one way from the outside, but within we hide our memories, scars, pain. It "heals over," but it is there.

This was just beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

[marlawentmad]

Thank you kindly. I think there is a wider story begging to be told here about tree spirits if it has more time to percolate.

[bleodswean]

The third stanza knocked the breath out of my body. So incredibly powerfully done. Brava!

One is forced to question the way the gears mesh.

[marlawentmad]

What a powerful compliment! Thank you kindly. This prompt knocked so many ideas loose. I hope to return to them again.

[engarian]

What a lovely thought - to have this joining between tree and companion.

- Erulisse (one L)

[marlawentmad]

I keep thinking about the interconnectedness of the ecosystem, and something in me tells me it ripples so much farther and deeper than we usually consider.

[roina_arwen]

Beautiful. I think we were in a similar writing space this week.

[marlawentmad]

Thank you for reading and commenting.

[beautyofgrey]

All of it is beautiful, but I think I am most in love with the sentiments in the first stanza, and wish that I could be half as resilient as a forest.

[marlawentmad]

Oh, goodness. After reading your piece, I would suggest you very much are.