There are angel trees among us…

There are angel trees among us, or Ode to "The Tree."

A place in Charleston I went.
To see a tree was my intent.
The tree had no name.
However her age was her claim to fame.
Although her prettiness to sight she came.
Agelessness and loveliness she came is all the same.

Its beauty legendary and spread out.
A naked growth that goes forward and sideways to sprout.
Twisted arms, curved and deformed.
Grew years and years, 1500 years to form.

Branches angling,
Branches dangling,
Branches tangling,
Branches mangling,
Branches wrangling,

Spreading wide above the forest floor (more than a 1/3 acre)
Sprawled out beautifully for the eyes to adore.
Sprawled out beautifully just feet from the Atlantic shore.
Spraying out beauteousness whoever for.

John’s island (NC) is where she grew.
John’s island is where her life has spewed.
Different light, differently viewed,
Creating different hues for me and you.

As deformed as she may be,
Her comeliness is undeniably what you see.
What is this anomaly of nature to be.
She lives among the family of live oak trees.
She likes to live near the sea.
She doesn’t like much living among you and me.

She lives alone because she prefers to be alone.
She needs room to groom, her tentacles in her zone.
Her name has been dubbed simply "The Tree."
She is an imposing creation, an inspiring feat of nature for us to see.

She had only sprouted 1000 years before Columbus was even born.
A thousand years before she wasn’t much more than a prickly thorn.
Now if you get a chance,
And you’re in North Carolina… take a glance.
Take a glance to see this marvel of a natural source.
Take a glance to see a nature’s force, and a nature’s course.

She ages only to have more beauty for us to see.
Why is it that we don’t age with such beauty me and thee?
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful is all I have to say.
And so then I said good bye that day.

The sun then glistened through with its rays.
Twinkling light amid tattered leaves and the branch frays.
"The Tree" graciously bowed from the breeze and away.
And to me extended a bonhomous wave as she bowed a gentle sway. ~ Me

There is a tree in John’s Island NC, a species called "live oak." This aged, angel oak tree, aka "The Tree," is estimated to be as much as 1500 years old. She stands 66.5 ft. tall, measures 28 ft. in circumference, and produces shade that covers 17,200 square feet (1,600 m2). From tip to tip Its longest branch distance is 187 ft, more than half the length of a football field. I have posed different pictures because of the different beauties of the same tree. Nature in concert I call it.<br />

http://www.sciway.net/sc-photos/charleston-county/angel-oak.html