Naming Tree

Cherry

By celticman

Mon, 10 Nov 2025
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11 comments
 

To know is to name

To name is to grow

To remember and show

To change what we know

To connect what we cannot see

To create history and language and poetry

To separate and connect and combine with all we can find

To put entire species to flight and watch diversity disappear overnight

To name the sacred unknowing and find the mosaic of the human race—

Certificate PG
Poem
Philosophy

Comments

Submitted by Di_Hard on

If any living thing survives, it will be in the cracks between mankind's control. No man's land in our battle to be God

 

Submitted by Ewan on

  ... and that's all I have to say about that.

Author Page at the 'Zon
 

Submitted by celticman on

thanks, I can say I wrote this after reading The Paper Over The Cracks. 

 

Submitted by Turlough on

You've summed up the whole world there. The meaning of life, and death. 

Good stuff CM.

Turlough

Submitted by celticman on

ah, but no leaky teapots, Turlough. Always that missing piece. 

 

Submitted by VeraClark on

♡♡ if only

 

Submitted by celticman on

cheers for reading vera. poetry is a way of crying. 

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Just discovered and loved this Jack. yes

Jenny.

 

Submitted by celticman on

ah, thanks Jenny. much appreciated. Your name added to the list. 

 

Submitted by David Kirtley on

As your poems usually have done, you have got me thinking, partly wondering what it is exactly about! I am seeing the growth and development of civilisation, knowledge, and understanding, until that line, 'to put entire species to flight and watch diversity disappear overnight'. Then I see the flora and fauna disappearing, animals and nature, under climate change, human expansion of cities and farms/industry. But also, being Trump obsessed, I see immigrants and Latinos fleeing or hiding in the United States and racial and other diversity being 'stopped'! Is society and knowledge unravelling, and unknowing, going backwards, but the mosaic of humanity is being revealed. Great stuff, certainly gets me thinking! 

 

Submitted by celticman on

cheers david.