THE TREES HUM

[copper crow]

This, as mentioned, is from daily prompts

"The trees hum so calmly,
They sing so beautifully!
...Can you hear it?"
..
Can you?

The singing’s so loud
So loud, i cant handle
Its deep and smooth
Yet it rings my ears

Wait…
……they dont just sing
They talk
The wind talks first
I thought it was just wind
The leaves formed a letter
I thought it was just autumn
The branches bent towards
I thought it was the storm

The trees speak with them
With the wind, the wind speaks with the trees
The wind that helps in bending the branches
That shakes the leaves to fall
…………….But what did they convey?
I never caught

But what did they convey?
Were these messages?
Were they messing with me?
What do they want from me?
What did they want from me?

Oh but the time’s gone
And I failed to notice
The storm has passed, the trees stopped humming

It was all in front of my eyes
It was so close to touch
But Im blind
So blind
So blind!

[copper crow]

The trees hummed softly,
their voices buried beneath the wind.

At first
I mistook it for autumn—

leaves loosening themselves
from thin black branches,
the air folding against the bark.

Then the branches bent.

Not with the storm,
but toward something unseen.

The wind moved through them
like a whisper through parted teeth.
Leaves gathered at my feet
in shapes almost readable,
as though the forest
had written and rewritten
the same sentence for years.

I stood listening.

Certain
that something had passed beside me,
close enough to touch,
close enough to understand—

before the silence returned.

Now the trees are still.
The storm has long since gone.

Only the empty branches remain,
reaching toward nothing,

and I,
blind beneath them

@regal laurel @cinder seal this one's a bit more polished. Please give your insights whenever you're free.

i changed it a bit but kept my voice

and removed questions

[regal laurel]

I like it.

I should reiterate I hold not such a strong stance against questions. I thought you may just be unfamiliar with the entire question debate so i felt the need to elaborate on the concept.

As for this. other than maybe a fullstop at the very end I think this is very well punctuated

[copper crow]

Thank you.

And yes, questions do not ALWAYS look good in poetry but at some poems, it does. I've read poems with quesions. Most of my poems have questions too.

This poem is just an experiment, my voice is confessional, repetitive and simple.

And some poets strip puntuation intentionally. But again, yes this poem needed puntuations.