A series of poems penned in my absence this fall... It's quite longer than I expected, in truth.

[center]Notes from Trees

1. The Wise Tree

Read the ground,
Read the gasping shreds left underhoof,
Stop crunching them.

Read tightened stems and storied bark,
Reading crisped rivers of written lines.
Read the letterforms of the veins,
Read the curl, the browning like smoldering paper:
Read the edges of the darkened spots of leaves.
Learn them.


2. The Sweet Olive Tree

Pluck a flower.
These blossoms, nose-tickling
As white clouds,
As cool, crisp air.

Let It waft from your fingertips
As they crush the scent, bright
As bark and plant-fiber, bound
As if little bouquets with woven ribbons.

3. The Redbud Tree

Avoid the sight of me until spring –
When my leaves are wet and red,
When my flowers unfold like a newbown fawn
When its legs are stick-thin and unsure in that season
When my tender petals
Are budding out flush pink.

Remember that me,
Erase all other revisions.


4. The oldwood tree
Listen for my creaking --
Listen for my branches, where the wood
Listens to the dryness and lets in water, and
Listen! Insects creep
Listening to the edges of my grain.

Please do some trimming.
Let new growth come.

5. The rustling tree

Catch the sound
Caught in a breeze so light it
Catches against your ear like the edges of hand.

Catch the voices of those airy spirits
Caught in the cages of my twigs –
Catch in your hand the sung- out rustling

Understandings from cloud-tips.
Keep them close.

6. The old oak tree

Let the light
Fall on you in puddles
In drops like rain
Or dapples on the back of a wild horse.

Let my branches shield you
As I do crows, or the squirrels
Who crawl across
The landscape of branching rivers I create.

Let me thank you for exhaling,
For making the breath
I breathe.


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Just need some info to help me kick my TEFc addiction - how much time do you spend on the community site each day? Just say how many minutes or hours every day you have a web browser on the community site (not necessarily looking at the community site but you have a window or a tab open that is on the site).

The reason why I am asking is because as you may know I've realized I have an addiction to this site.

After doing some calculations on my typical schedule and when I have access to a computer, I was shocked to realize that I spend between 8-12 hours with a window on TEFc. That's why I know I am addicted to this place. I am not always looking at the site of course because part of the time I am working on homework, am away from the computer doing other things, watching TV, ect. But nearly a half a day is too long for this.

So I'm going to work on setting aside a time during the day where I can check the site but not for the lengths of time I have been. It needs to stop anyway since I've got a lot more homework and studying that needs to be done this semester. (And please don't criticize me about this, I have been using the site as a way to relax. I never intended this to happen, I didn't even realize until now that I have spent that much time.)

So how long do you spend on TEFc each day?

art is by lady-symphonia



Today
I met a doe name Ruuqa,an interesting character who accompanied me despite my quiet demeaner.
A fawn also brought a smile to my face I know not its name other than the real deer mask it wore.Shortly after leaving me a blue fawn cast the bird mask on me.Ironic in a way since I am the black sparrow.Is,it possible he knows my secret,not much I can do other than rest among these bluberries tonight






Music is the melody of life it is my heart it is the only thing that keeps me going.It flows in my veins like a breath of fresh air.I am consumed by it ,for it is the only thing that has ever given me hope.Each day it surround me and clings to my soul,it's very easy to get lost in this world of music and once you do you will never be the same.But I also have a secret I grow wings like the sparrow and can fly in the sky.Who am I,just a stranger to most but someday I'll take my throne back and become queen
Human
Name---Esmerelda Heights
Gender ---female
orientation--straight
age--- 16

Instruments she plays violin,piano,cello,and the flute .





She loves music she finds her compony in the melody and the song it creates.She is often alone because most don't give her a chance.She knows nothing of love how it is to be loved or love some one.Her exterior is very hard and cold She is the heir to the sparrow thrown but her uncle killed her father and overthough him.Because her life was jeapardy she had to flee her home in Moriantar.

As a deer
species--white tail deer
gender --female
love--none
family-none

Ruuqa--acquaintance




Enemies



She finds herself spending her time in the ruins singing with the birds.If she think she is not alone she will stop singing.She is rather skinny she tends not to eat much because she consumes herself with nature and music

Positive
Loves birds
singing
music
nature

Negative
Shy
quiet
cold
tends to really only show emotion in her music.

-.-

Sidewalk here.

I will use this account for commenting. ♥

How exactly do yu create css for bios and stuffs. I just can't figure out how. I was wonderin if any a yu could help me with it....please

Now that I have a pelt and antlers that I like, I would like the real deer mask.. I'm not sure how to get it and I haven't really looked into it either. So.. if anyone could get me one, that would be great. Just tell me where we should meet. (8

EDIT:
Oh, and here's my pictogram, http://taleoftales.com/TheEndlessForest/register/pictogram.php?username=Baileigh

(Read part one here: http://www.endlessforest.org/community/beginning .)
(Read part two here: http://www.endlessforest.org/community/playground-0 .)

Moonlight filtered through the branches overhead and dappled Karma's already patterned pelt as she stepped lightly into the large mushroom ring. She was not the first to arrive. Across the clearing sat a stag with strange golden antlers and a smooth black face. His dark blue pelt shimmering and glistened as if wet.

"It's about time," he said gruffly as Karma approached. She smiled warmly at her brother, knowing full well he was only grumpy because he hated being away from his beloved pond for so long. Not long ago, Echo had suggested that they hold their meetings upstream at the bridge--to be close to the gods, he had argued--but of course Stella would hear nothing of it.

Stella was there too, pacing restlessly around the ring. The candles on her antlers cast eerie shadows across her orange pelt, and her eyes glinted out from her painted face with frustration. "It's about time is right!" she exclaimed. "How many moons has it been now? I've had the candidates in mind since I was practically a fawn. The forest is full of stags in their prime this season. We couldn't have had more fortunate timing. It benefits nothing to wait. And where is our youngest sister, anyway? Off picking poppies?"

"Not quite," came a muffled reply, and all three deer turned their heads to see Coriander slip into the ring. She dropped a pile of sweet-smelling brush next to her brother. "I didn't mean to keep anyone waiting, but I thought you might like some refreshments."

"Hmph," grunted Stella as she bent to sniff the pile. Echo was already nibbling.

"Don't worry. I just arrived too. However," Karma paused, glancing at her fiery sister, "Stella is right. We have a lot to discuss tonight so I'll get right to it. What have we learned since our last meeting?

I love this game so far (now that I've messed with it a bit). I made an account (obviously) but I don't know how to get my deer to have it's name... :/ I'm probably being dumb, but, how do I do that? XD.