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Description
The Celtic Tree of Life is often drawn showing the branches reaching skyward and the roots spreading out into the earth below symbolising the Druid belief in the link between heaven and earth. Spiritually, the Celts believed that trees were the ancestors of man and had a direct connection to the other world: the Druids would hold their classes and meetings under the trees and, when clearing a settlement, the ancient Celts would always leave a tree standing in the centre.
The Tree of Life exists in many cultures, religions and mythologies, including those of Ancient Egypt, China, the Kabbalah and the Mayans, etc.
Hope that's OK - and here's the poem it'll accompany, and add to.
Cheers,
RKKolsson
1. Love on the Croft in the Time of Wi-Fi
If you suffer pain
And you can’t stoop for fear your spine,
Stiffening under the strain,
Must flex, with a jolt flex again
Like the neck of a heron,
Or a flamingo’s s of feather and flame swaying on
Its stalk, or a mind gone
spiralling into itself like a dog’s digging up a bone
Or trying to bite its missing tail,
each time morning light plays round the curtain rail
I’ll lift you water in a bucket, coal
in its iron hod. Without fail.