Trees

By Top Writers Block

Seven short stories about trees. There is nothing ordinary about any of them.
Enjoy reading them during a coffee break or when you have a spare five minutes.
The authors' proceeds go directly to Sea Shepherd, a charity who devotes itself to protecting our oceans and the life within.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Top Writers Block
• Release date: Feb 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311013187

Top Writers Block

Top Writers Block is a diverse and eclectic group of talented writers who decided to write stories together - just for the fun of it! Our collections are usually written with one theme or genre in mind. Each author contributes when they have the time, so some of the collections have as many as twelve authors participating. Every collection has something new, with stories and poems ranging from romance, drama, and adventure to mystery, fantasy, and horror.

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Collection of Short Stories

by

Top Writers Block

Trees

Copyright©Jan. 2015 Top Writers Block

Published on Smashwords

ISBN: 9781311013187

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Cover Design : Suzy Stewart Dubot

Photo : George Hodan Public Domain Pictures – http://goo.gl/r0FTx3

Table of Contents

Spirit Tree by Tracey Howard

Only the Trees Remain by Melissa A. Szydlek

The Invisible Ones by David H. Keith

Cedar, Beech and Lime by Suzy Stewart Dubot

The Woods by Barnaby Wilde

Queen of the Woods by Elizabeth Rowan Keith

Trees and Dreams by Suzy Stewart Dubot

Spirit Tree

by

Tracey Howard

©2014 Tracey Howard

Tracey is a stay at home wife and mother who has lived all over the United States. She is currently living in northern Indiana with her husband of nearly twenty years, their 15 year old daughter and two hairballs of the canine variety.

She is an avid reader with an insatiable appetite, surpassed only by her child, to whom she has passed on the reader trait.

She is a self-taught amateur shutterbug and although she has been writing for the majority of her adult life, she only recently put both words and pictures out there for the world to see.

Deep below me

An echoing rhythm

Nature’s heart beat

Her spirit fills me

No man made bed

Nor broken roots

Can confine me

They do not limit me

Family comes to visit

People from all walks

Some old, some young

Lay their hands upon me

Until my once rough skin

Is smoothed and polished

Though I’ve no ears

I hear them talk to me

Telling me their dreams

Their visions, their hopes

Their worries and joys

Secrets small and large

Leaving their worst

And their best

With me to carry

Binding us for an eternity

I hold their truths

A silent keeper

A limitless vault

A labor of love

Their tears nourish me

Divine rain

Soaking into my very heart

Renewing me

So that I can carry on

Keeping secrets safe

Their words flow over me

Sometimes a flood

Sometimes a trickle

Others a small stream

Images painted in words

Giving colors, bright and vivid

Shining like the sun

To these old, blind eyes

Showing me pieces of the world

That only they have seen

Though I’ve no arms

To reach out and pull them in

I embrace all who come

Hold their spirit safe

Nurtured at my deepest roots

Shared with mother nature

Her love healing

Her spirit multiplying

Giving all so that I can continue

Giving back full measure

Of all given in trust to me

Closing their eyes

They open their hearts

Freeing their minds

Feeling the strength

The earth’s spirit shared

Healing wounds soul deep

They present small gifts

Draping my bare branches

Tokens left behind

Shared gratitude

Adornments more beautiful

More precious

Than any former leaf or flower

Pieces of their history

Now shared with me

Granting me dreams

Light filled visions

During the dark nights

It’s been so long

Since anyone last came

My roots are dried up

My skin rough and cold

I hold tight to my memories

I revisit the old stories

And dream the old dreams

Not as vivid now

The colors are faded

The details blurred

The days darker

The nights longer

My world grows smaller

Each passing season

A new day is dawning

The rising of the summer sun

Warming me with its rays

A new spirit touches me

Burning away the cold

Heating my core

Tiny hands like new growth

Bright, shining

Sparkling with life

Filling me with wonder

As new spirit touches old

Childhood fantasies shared

Small voice whispers a new story

A new dream emerging

Wrapped in dancing colors

Moving to a new song

Adding notes and steps

To the stories I already keep

Rebirth and growth

Filling my spirit again