This post is dedicated to #treetuesday challenge by @old-guy-photos. It is about palm trees. I was fascinated by them while I was living in the Virgin Islands. I took hundreds of pictures, that’s how much I love palm trees.

This palm tree is probably the most pictured tree. The was it grew is so amazing. If you ever visit St. Thomas, you will find this tree on Emerald Beach.

Different angle, same palm tree.

A black and white version...

I love looking up at those wonderful leaves and day dream.

But what if palm trees could dream? Read the poem below to find the answer. 😊

The Palm Tree

By Rabindranath Tagore

Palm-tree: single-legged giant,
topping other trees,
peering at the firmament...
It longs to pierce the black cloud-ceiling
and fly away, away,
if only it had wings.

The tree seems to express its wish
in the tossing of its head:
its fronds heave and swish...

It thinks, maybe my leaves are feathers,
and nothing stops me now
from rising on their flutter.

All day the fronds the windblown tree
soar and flap and shudder
as though it thinks it can fly,
As though it wanders in the skies,
travelling who knows where,
wheeling past the stars...

And then as soon as the wind dies down,
the fronds subside, subside:
the mind of the tree returns.

To earth, recalls that earth is its mother:
and then it likes once more
its earthly corner.

This is a poem by Tagore, the first non-European poet (he was Bengali) who received the Nobel Prize for literature (in 1913).

So, the palm tree dreamed that he could fly with the wind... like birds... his leaves were feathers... but in the end, when wind died, he remembered that earth is his home and he loved his ‘earthly corner’.

I love this poem, do you?

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