........... The Tree Roots and Her Off-shoots...........

 

 
Formed through the passage of time

Laid by ancient ancestral footprints

Like elephant hoofs traipsing over the African Plain
.....

to transport and sustain the descending lines

Drawn in the sand

Spreading far and wide over the parched red clays

Sown in patch-quilts of grays and blacks, browns and

Seamless hues of blues across the ocean divide

Deeply embedded

 in the turrets of the drumbeat

Powered by spiraling grooves

Layered and encrusted

Upon the floored formations’ foundations formed 
at the birth of the nations

Entwined with temple domes wrapped in swaddling cloths and headdresses

of fern vines and floral trellises 

 
Webbed and mounted 

As inter-locks and drifting threads 

Covering the body proper

Growing up

With the fueled and fertile hems beneath the river stream

Fanned out as wings of doves thirsting for a drink 
from the oceans

To sail off and scatter in flight in the dark of night

Arrayed as a fortressed behemoth 

 

Cloaked in the tender moss like felt of succulent fruit

From fiercely molded trunks 
Hunkered under aromatic scents

Seeded in the Master stone-makers’ workshop

Under the breath of the sun rising and setting

on the banks of many rivers

Entrenched in the rich bedding of sheltering arms

 In the shapes and sizes of stoic eagles to bear and transport

and sustain the rise and fall

Sweeping the outer crust of dust in songs the rains sing

Out of the sacred shoots burrowing

from the hallowed  

Secrets ingrown and sown in the soil

Below underneath the base

Nourished from the places of origin

Being the source of Attachments, Connections

Bonds, Additions, Parts… as a family, and purposely 
fixed firmly

As the established order

of a many-membered body
...

 Branched and stemmed to become the offspring of a thing

As a twig is an out-shoot “of the root“

Weak or strong, sturdy or feeble

Endurable or unbearable

in the times of storms and eruptions

Which shake the right of existence

Worn and withstood under the draping of spirited shadows 
Dressed in lace

Addressing the young from the weathered moor 

Shrouded in the veins nestled

in the webbed footed rung

Gathered about the foot of the

Channel Line and aligned in

Etchings and sketchings

of grooved horns

Braided and inlaid

Like lead in stone

Twirled and curled

 

to whirl and dance

in the midst of

All-seeing eyes
...

Bored into the cavities

Deeply creviced in a face

Having seen the columns stretched up to the heavens

Spreading forth winged backs of the wind

Planted alongside the tracks of tears and fears

In the light of night and days gone by

Passing on the order of the age giving life form 
from the womb   

As is the Tree of Life… our stem and root… 
in Whom we blossom and bloom
....

“And it shall be in that day that the Root of Jesse shall 
stand as a signal for the peoples…”Isaiah 11:10

“If the root of Abraham is consecrated, 
so are the branches.” Romans. 11:16

“And he shall be like a tree firmly planted 
by the streams of water,

Ready to bring forth its fruit in its season.” Psalms 1:3

“The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly 
and are filled with sap,

The cedars of Lebanon which He has planted.” 
Psalms 104:16

And already the ax is lying at the root of trees; 
every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit 
is cut down and thrown into the fire.” Matthew 2:10

“For the tree is known and recognized 
and judged by its fruit.” Matthew 12:33

“May you be rooted deep in love 
and founded securely on love.” Ephesians 3:17