True Blue

 

The blue is gracefully beautiful
quite stately and well grounded

winds that daily gust and blow
seldom shake this mighty spruce
from its firm grasp of the matter
being strong and broadly rooted

oh to be as nimble and steadfast
when buffeted with challenges

*
rob kistner © 2021

Poetry at: dVerse

* Hope you enjoyed the poem, but as an added arboreal fact — the Douglas Fir has the deeper roots.

 

28 thoughts on “True Blue”

  1. All concrete, no emotions. I love the smell of spruce. At American Lake VA, when I worked there, its campus is covered in tall Douglas Fir. They must be shallow-rooted, because in wind storms they topple easily.

    1. In fact, I discovered my memory is shot. Despite what I thought I remembered, the fact is the spruce is shallow rooted, although their feeder root runs deep. I remember the Douglas has an overall deeper root system, just thought I recalled the spruce ran deeper. Oh well, guess I lose my arboreal merit badge.

  2. I’ve never seen a blue spruce, it looks surreal … a bit like out artificial Christmas trees. Nice song, lovely poem

    1. Many artificials are fashioned after the blue spruce, a very surreal tree. They grow to over 50 feet tall in the wild Kate. Harty in the USA and Scandinavian countries, especially in the Colorado Rockies and Norway.

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