zodiac17 Oct 2005

You can stand in the middle of something. You can't stand in amidst it.

There is a journey tree
Standing in a wide river
Where a waterfall crests
Into a sea of fire

- is the easiest thing I can think of.

Pigeons and doves are the same species. Most "doves" released at dove-releasings are really trained homing pigeons.

I was just using someone else's "hypothetical". Unfortunately, it was Dovina's. You're wrong thinking hypothetical implies a "realistic" situation. Recently on poemranker we've had hypothetical worlds where, among other things
- humans evolved with hairy asses,
- I'm not wearing pants, and
- people communicate using only lies.

An image like your tree is nice for a color-by-numbers painting over the TV, the kind usually depicting lighthouses standing against the storm, or rainstorms looming over a small Alpine cottage. If you mean it to be a story, or poem, or story-poem, or poem-story, I think you need it to do something. I also think that'll be really hard to do. People who try tend to do one or more of the following things:
- Be walking along full of doubt and find the tree,
- Be swept along in the river and grab the tree,
- Remember the tree from youth and return to find it gone,
- Be Samuel T. Coleridge and zonked on Mexican brown.