The fifth of January Two Thousand and Eleven, a black day in my world. My world is a miniscule world of my family, people, town and life. On this day the eighteen year old Flame Tree was ruthlessly murdered by Town Planners, who want to keep the town 'spick and span'. The tree had been planted some eigteen years ago along with its cousin who also breathed his last today. It had been a wonderful source of shade and food for humans and animals and animals respectively. It was serving as a Hanging Bridge for chipmunks to travel from the parapet of my house to the corrugated roof of the house opposite. A few crows chose the tree as the abode for their descendants as they built their nest in it. Some prescient bees had for sometime using the tree as the storage store of their honey and vacated the place. The blooming season of the tree gave it a great outlook and dressed it in sanguine red and it came on it today in an unseason time. Some wood peckers divined the housing of insects of the tree and freed itself of them. Now the tree itself had freed itself of its existence.
Any one can write about it, but only God can make a tree!
ReplyDeleteif u had taken a photo of the tree and uploaded it in ur blog that would have made the tree everliving. please do plant 4 new saplings to compensate the loss. however, be careful in choosing the place.
ReplyDeletei forgot to add that an age-old (more than 40yrs, for the tree was a grown-up one ever since i was born) neem tree near my parental house was also cut recently as they are laying new road. may be it is a season of felling the trees.Its cousin was slaughtered 15 yrs back. there was a myth about the trees; they were the abode of 'muni'; when the cousin was done away they said that the muni was angry and now no abode; what will happen to the muni and his anger?
ReplyDeleteDear Daughter of a Merchant i have added a photograph to the story, though it is not of the dead tree, i believe, it will make readers relish its sight.
ReplyDeletethough not the original tree it is a lovely photograph of a tree. thanks for having obliged my request.
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