Go with the laws of nature.
How of all God’s creatures we are last to learn:
How a stream does not run up hill
or a tree hold on to its leaves,
or the soil not absorb the rain.
Go with the laws of nature
to trust in winter preceding spring.
To know
that the cyclical cold front
is followed by the sun’s return.
Go with nature’s teachings,
the day’s turning.
Knowing the night that covers
gives way to the revelation of dawn.
Go with the laws of return:
That we bloom until we wilt,
that we fold against the wind,
that this world we live in is both indifferent
and purposeful.
Quiet laws
are only perceived through the seasons.
Even the season of death,
when considered in the light of eternity,
is only like a trapdoor,
or a seed, that by dying in the ground
is resurrected to new life.
Ana Lisa de Jong
Living Tree Poetry
April 2023
Living Tree Poetry 
Your poems in themselves are nature’s teachings…I read them more than once to take them in…deep thanks for being faithful to your inner visions and perceptions of the natural world…
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Your poems in themselves are nature’s teachings…I read them more than once to take them in…deep thanks for being faithful to your inner visions and perceptions of the natural world…
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It means so much to hear how a poem lands and what it means to the reader. Thank you xx
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What wise advice…I save this poem for my early morning meditation/prayer…I wake at five and read/write/meditate until seven am…wisdom arrives during this time, including reading your poems… again and again, thanks💖 Brenda
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Oh Brenda, I so value our friendship and deeply grateful we found one another here x
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Me too, Ana Lisa! From where I come from, Newfoundland, Canada – we would say ” oh yes, we are ‘on the one word!” Brenda
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Thank you for your poetry, from your blooming, wilting, folding, friend. Have a wonderful New Year.
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Thank you to my brother of another summer. I so appreciate your kinship x
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The words you use here seem short and simple, but they contain the most profound, the most profound realities that are lived daily. Your Gift is for expressing the depth of life in its simplest (and best) expressions! I love your poetic reflection because they articulate my own too…Deep Thanks and blessings of the time past and the time arriving…
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Oh this is so special for me, ‘expressing the depth of life in its simplest expressions’. Thanks for knowing me so well xx
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