Hi Pauline,

Thank you for the invitation.

What a neat idea.  You have chosen the coolest of cool chicks on AdLandPro

                   Ana Maria Padurean

I am glad the ax will never harm that tree.

Be blessed,
Myrna

Hello Pauline!

Well done! AnaMaria is playing with us. One time hidding behind the tree next time sitting for the tree. Next time she will cut it off.

Nice poem. Keep up the good work.

Georgios

WOW!!! - lately this is the word I learned and exercised best here on Adland :-) - I should go one step further and learn another one :-)

First of all, THANKS A LOT Pauline for dedicating me this wonderful Poem. It is beautiful indeed and so well fits to The Article of Virtue, Sam posted on my behalf in his wonderful Forum - Inspirations Of Samiplus?!


I thought a lot what should I post here and what would be my best reply to this ... I can't even find the right words ...

As I've already said Romanians have a strong bond with nature and TREES; they are often personified (hope the word is the right one and in English?!) and it present as our friend or some one to share thoughts, feelings, memories ... so let me invite you to read one of my favorites:

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"Yea, and I, what have I done?
Watched the years their seasons run;
Heard the squalls that through me groan
Ere my singing birds have flown;
Heard the creaking of my boughs
Neath the mounted winter snows.
Yea indeed, what have I done?
Done as I have always done;
Felt my summer leaves re-growing,
Heard the village girls who going
By the path that meets the spring
Melancholy doina sing."

"Forest, though the tempests blow,
The years come and the years go,
And the seasons wax and wane,
You are ever young again."

"What of seasons, when for ages
All the sky my lake engages;
What of years ill or good,
When the sap mounts in the wood;
What of years or ill,
When the Danube rolls on still.
Only man is always changing,
O'er the world forever ranging;
We each do our place retain,
As we were, so we remain;
Oceans, rivers, mountains high
And the stars that light the sky,
Saturn with its whirling rings,
And the forest with its springs."

(Transl. by Corneliu M. Popescu)

I so very much you'll enjoy the poem as well and you'll see why these TREES have to be saved and loved and appreciated.

Thank You again :-)

With friendship and love,
Anamaria

Hi Peter,

Thanks for being the first to post, glad you liked the poem. Yes on reading it Ana Maria came to mind instantly, and so the dedication.
We al luv her dont we??? she is so special.

Take care my friend,:-)

Shalom

Pauline R