Weekly Challenges
Planting
Deadline
Begin a story or poem with the planting of a tree. Is the action symbolic to your character in some way? Does the tree mark a special location to them? [Photo by Johann Siemens on Unsplash]
Weekly Challenges
Deadline
Begin a story or poem with the planting of a tree. Is the action symbolic to your character in some way? Does the tree mark a special location to them? [Photo by Johann Siemens on Unsplash]
Plant a tree
Grow a life
Hold a heart, a seed,
A piece of something bigger than you
You can make a difference and change the world
The seed will grow for years and years.
It will grow strong and tall,
with limbs so thick and leaves so green.
My tree will have it all.
In summer we may have a picnic in its shade,
Set on a lone countryside, the sun shines brightly.
A little toddler, in too-big garden gloves and dirtied overalls holds out a sapling. She kneels down and sets the sapling down …
Two years later
When Johnny first put that seed in the ground, when he first covered it with soil and gave it water, he had no idea how big it would become.