The poetry, stories and intrigues of C.J. Brenner
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Fallen Tree
One afternoon there was a terrible clamor in the forest. A tree had actually fallen down. It was an old tree and it was actually bronzed when it fell over. This was unheard of and noone knew what to do. The Tree God let it happen. But that said it made a very smart enterance way for any of the Tree visitors to visit. This bronzed tree which means it was no longer a happy healthy prosperous trunk of a tree but may or may not have still had living tree branches was really a bronzed weed, but everyone thought it was a tree. Weeds could indeed be uprooted and fall over. Never did a tree fall over ever.
Apples and Baseballs
Many years after the forest was planted, a Tree came along in the forest that many of the trees did not really feel was a smart enough Tree. But forunately for this tree, the Tree God had a plan for his existence. He grew up and produced baseballs on his branches and he liked to throw the baseballs at the Hose some of the time and really like pelting the stump named Pickles with a baseball once in a while. This distracted the children. Some were curious and some were angry. But it made sure that neither of these children realized that the Tree God was making the forest solely for their own benefit alone. That was the problem. The children who did not like the Trees very much really thought that the purpose of the forest was either the baklava squirting hose or the stump that changed colors. This was ok with the Tree God but he didn't like it when they attacked the existence of the Trees. So the Tree that threw baseballs came along and just threw baseballs. It sort of worked but it was not going to last forever either. They were really soft throws. The Tree that is here described was intelligent and fair. He actually smelled like the carnations that the Rose Garden really liked but the people of the Rose Garden were really not ready to smell the carnations very much. True they looked good and they all ordered them in bouquets, but that was not the need that the Tree God created the carnations for. These carnations had a Big Truth and that was that they were intelligently designed and had a good calling. They all were all over the earth. A few other trees indeed smelled of this carnation and a good number of the weeds did as well. It wasn't exactly what the forest had thought it would befriend, a plant or tree that smelled of a carnation, but the Forest realized that the Tree God loved carnations and it was actually a blessing and honor to smell this way. So carnations might someday find their way into the Rose Gardens Power Tree's ecosystem. It remains to be seen, but I predict that someday someone who smells like a Carnation really changes the forest for the better. Maybe it will be the tree that threw soft pitch baseballs. There were already a few carnation smelling weeds that made latkes for the trees, that made diamonds for the top of the Power tree, that made walls for the protected Tree Growing Area. But few people knew this. The carnation smelling trees were a brotherhood in fact and they really looked good. They had a beautiful way of life and each one had a special life giving apple to give to one another. It was really terrific but noone in the forest except the carnation smelling life knew what type of apple that was and its a secret to even myself.
Forest of Plenty
One day when the Forest was newly formed and the weeds were abundant, there was grown a big weed that was strong and healthy and looked exactly like the Trees really were going to look. We will call this new weed Hamabra. Hamabra was wise and he was the first to say that he Really loved the Tree God and he told all of the weeds of this fact. He had a baby tree that he named SacIs and SacIs indeed loved the Tree God too. Actually SacIs was really another weed that looked like a tree but the Trees of the future loved him dearly just as they loved Hamabra too. And finally after these two trees existed, they had a third child tree who was in fact the First Tree. We will call him Jacob. Jacob the Tree grew tall and mighty. He was like an elm tree and had branches that went for miles and miles and miles. His branches are still alive and well today even though his trunk was bronzed by the Tree God for the rest of the world to remember him for when he was alive. And soon there were now trees that populated the Forest. This was a good thing and the Tree God smiled to himself that he would never ever destroy the forest ever no matter how many chainsaws or weeds did not like the Trees. It was the Tree God's plan to make the Trees mighty and make the Forest really a forest that was truly made for the Trees. Many weeds thought that the Tree God was really a weed God. He was not. But he liked to make lots of weeds of all shapes and sizes. There was one problem however, the new Trees had no guidance system for their branches to be formed. So the Tree God created a special tree named Milestone and Milestone was a prophet and wise tree in all of his ways. Milestone was tested again and again and he was a bright star. He began his life in a shower of rose petals that were from the Rose Garden but floated up the waters of the middle Pyramidal Territory of the Forest. So Milestone was brilliant and he rose to great heights in the weeds of the Pyramid Territories. Milestone once had to eliminate one of the weeds in the Pyramid Territory as it was trying to hurt the trees. Milestone was thought to be a weed but he actually was a tree and soon all the trees looked to him as their best friend. Milestone decided that the Trees did not belong in the care of the Weeds that ran the Pyramidal Territories and he asked the leader of these Weeds named a Roachgun to release all of the Trees from his evil rabbit traps that he put on the bottom of each of these Trees. Some of the trees did not want to lose their rabbit trap because it made the rabbits leave their care and they never needed a rabbit to help them grow tall. But Milestone succeeded and Roachgun left the key to remove the Rabbit Traps on Milestones doorstep. Milestone told all the Trees to look up and when they did, a cloud formed over their canopies and it smiled back at them with a rainbow of gold coins that it dropped in their soil. It was good and the Tree God took Credit of course. So when the Milestone Tree was busy honing the buttercups that he wanted to plant among the trees that no longer had rabbit traps, he found that the Tree God asked him to make a special Tree Voyage to a mountain that had a Clam Kitchen that cooked clams for the clowns in the pink suits that liked to entertain the children that were in the forest. This clam kitchen was a miracle in that noone even knew where it was for the rest of the life of the Forest and eternity to come. The day Milestone visited the Clam Kitchen, the Trees worried that he might eat the clams and that he might grow Tree spurs. Clams made trees sick. So they built a battleship that they named Farley and Farley was fat and ugly and made of sap from the Trees that were once weeds but decided they wanted to be like the Trees that were freed of having rabbit traps. Milestone returned and saw the Battleship and then he cried becuase he never ate a clam and they were going to try to sink his tree spurs. This angered the Tree God even though he expected this to be a trust they would break and this made the Milestone Tree go back into the mountain and buy more clam shells. The clam shells looked good and at first Milestone had some clam shells he really liked but that the Tree God asked him to toss to the heavens. So the second Clam shells were good and Milestone showed the trees how they could all be ground into fertilizer for the Trees to make sure that they did not mysteriously vanish from the forest.
I met Milestone once. He was a formidable Tree with large roots and a spire that advanced into the heavens. He held more and more trees in his eyes and he liked to help the trees grow healthy. He was given a seed by the Tree God and this is how the Power Tree was formed. A simple seed that Milestone planted in the middle of the entire forest that lasted eternally. The rest of the Trees were happy because now Power was present in their forest and they had a Big Strong Tree to hold fast. I miss Milestone becuase he as all trees go became bronzed and never was seen in the living world of trees as a living Tree Trunk ever again. He was told to show the trees that they can indeed find a home in the Rose Garden any time they want. But he was not the best of Trees overall and he made a deal with the Tree God to be bronzed in a non Rose Garden location. This worked out well and noone ever saw his bronze image but he was thought of by every Tree and almost every weed as well. It was good and the Tree God opened the Rose Garden soon for every tree to dwell and live with milk and honey and apples and carnations too. It was a nice place and the carnations were always in bloom. They were red carnations too but noone knew that they really were in the heart of the rose garden. Power was a beautiful tree and he made some weeds that liked carnations and soon the carnations were friends of the Trees as well. This was the Tree God's plan.
I met Milestone once. He was a formidable Tree with large roots and a spire that advanced into the heavens. He held more and more trees in his eyes and he liked to help the trees grow healthy. He was given a seed by the Tree God and this is how the Power Tree was formed. A simple seed that Milestone planted in the middle of the entire forest that lasted eternally. The rest of the Trees were happy because now Power was present in their forest and they had a Big Strong Tree to hold fast. I miss Milestone becuase he as all trees go became bronzed and never was seen in the living world of trees as a living Tree Trunk ever again. He was told to show the trees that they can indeed find a home in the Rose Garden any time they want. But he was not the best of Trees overall and he made a deal with the Tree God to be bronzed in a non Rose Garden location. This worked out well and noone ever saw his bronze image but he was thought of by every Tree and almost every weed as well. It was good and the Tree God opened the Rose Garden soon for every tree to dwell and live with milk and honey and apples and carnations too. It was a nice place and the carnations were always in bloom. They were red carnations too but noone knew that they really were in the heart of the rose garden. Power was a beautiful tree and he made some weeds that liked carnations and soon the carnations were friends of the Trees as well. This was the Tree God's plan.
Party in the Forest
One day there was a super party in the forest. The trees all were no longer afraid of the evil chainsaw that the Tree God let loose once in an eternity that never EVER would again be the Creation of the Tree God. The Tree God decided to let the trees and weeds make special ornaments that they could share and every tree and weed would love to wear any time they wished. These special ornaments looked like Christmas Tree ornaments but there was a slight difference, they did not attach by hooks. They attached by earrings that hung from the ears of the trees and the weeds that only the Creator knew existed. These ears were imporatant and once the trees and weeds realized they had ears, they knew that they need many ornaments that could be interchanged and worn any time without too much cost to the trees and weeds. One ornament came out after the Chainsaw Massacre ended and it was in the shape of a little bug called a beatle of God. It was beautiful and soon there was a revolution. The weeds liked it sometimes and of course the Trees were happy as well. The beatles earring circulated and soon many had it and enjoyed it often. It shined in the daily sunlight. It even sang songs about the Creator such as songs about the Creator's fine eyes and fine handshake. This was a good way for the Creator to say that he would never again have a Chainsaw Massacre and the trees and weeds celebrated.
Redefining the Chainsaw Massacre
There was once a horrible day where the Tree God created a chainsaw that was covered with apple seed images on stickers that covered the chainsaw. The chainsaw saw the trees and wanted to cut them all down. The chainsaw started cutting the trees but if he did so, the Tree God woudl uproot the tree and replant it in a new part of the garden where it would live in safety for the rest of time. This part of the garden was surrounded by a large square tall wall that could not be penetrated with any substance or any child that the Tree God made. Everyone knew for all times of the fact that this special part of the garden existed and sometimes many of the Trees replanted there were so tall that when you looked at the walled off garden area, you always saw their beautiful canopy. If a tree had to go there it was ok. That meant that the tree was one of the Tree God's favorite. It was never a place that a tree should should wish upon itself to be relocated, but as long as the tree was not damaged by an act of nature it knew that it would always have that possibilty if the children or the saws in the forest wanted to destroy the canopy over its head.
The chainsaw was only in the forest a short time. Many other tools were brought into the forest after the chainsaw but none could make the Tree God replant as many trees ever ever ever again. Thanks!
The chainsaw was only in the forest a short time. Many other tools were brought into the forest after the chainsaw but none could make the Tree God replant as many trees ever ever ever again. Thanks!
Dancing in the Rose Garden
The trees came in two varieties, pink ones and light blue ones. This was just the color of the bow that the Tree God sutured to their soul and that was non transferrable. It could never be removed, painted or anyting of the like. The problem that the Tree God experienced was that many of the pink bowed trees did not want to let their canopy cover their branches. Sometimes they let their branches stick out into the heavens and this angered the Tree God immensely. These trees were never allowed into the Rose Garden of the forest. So if you have a pink bow on your soul and you are a Tree, learn about this class that the Tree God gives to everyone called baklava love. The baklava love was a good thing and it kept the rose garden from feeling the pain of the ugly unclad branches from sticking into the heavens and marring the entire beauty of this beautiful Rose Garden. Its never going to be a place for any pink bowed tree that has any branches showing, ever. Not even a hair of a branch. Ever. So be good and if you have a pink bow on your soul as a Tree, always cover your branches. The weeds had light blue and pink bows too, but they did not have branches that stuck out. So if they were not completely covered by the light blue weeds fronds, everything was ok. The light blue bowed Trees were not very smart some of the time and they did not care of the pink bowed trees had branches protruding. And they did not care if they did it in the forest too which still angered the Tree God immensely. If the light blue bowed tree had a branch sticking out it was all good and fine. He was a good tree and as long as he did not break one of these branches off and leave it on the forest floor, the Tree God did not care how the light blue bowed tree presented itself in the general forest. If the light blue bowed tree was in the Rose Garden however, it was really required to have a detailed description of its branches and canopy that matched the one that Power told it to wear. So Power was and always was the guide for Trees to live their lives. It was good that Power existed. Without power, there would be no Rose Garden and that's a fact. In fact the entire forest was created to make sure that a Tree like Power existed and that a pretty rose garden always smelled and looked good and gave any child a cup of milk and honey. Enjoy!
Living in the Rose Garden
The hose in the forest as I have already mentioned would spray out the best baklavah and the children who took to it loved it immensely. But that was the Tree God's plan. The children liked to eat the baklava and they thanked the Tree God for making the Hose all of their days. What they did not understand was that the Tree God made the hose to warm the forest floor becuase the baklava that it sprayed would decay and feed the Trees and the weeds. The Trees and weeds did not recognize that the food the enjoyed came from this hose, but it was so. The childen thanked the Tree God and said he was Great, but they were silly. They liked to call the Tree God, Charlie and they ran around telling stories about Charlie's greatest friend, a weed with a crown of thorns and a necklace that shined like a globe of the Earth's Surface. It was a great weed and they never wanted to let any other weed know what this weed even looked like. The thought that if they looked at the weed (the other weeds) that they too would want to wear a globe around their necks. So the Tree God let this happen and those children who ate baklava were good kids in their own right but they were never far from thinking of this mysterious Charlie that they knew was really good and benevolent. Charlie was a Tree like man form but he had claws and would cut holes in bedroom sheets if you did not sleep well at night. If you did not sleep well the Tree God that they really loved might take you from your house and put you in a tree and that would make you scared. The trees were very dark at night and they grew branches that might scare you and your goldfish too. I think that if you really liked this mysterious Charlie, you would realize that the Tree God was Real. If you didn't notice that the Trees were all doing very well and growing, especially in the future when they grew in the rose garden of the forest, the children who ate the baklava might be laughed at by the trees, but that was ok. The trees were not going away and the children just became weeds in the future. So if you like Charlie, the Tree God will enjoy listening to your song, but just remember, the Tree God is really a Tree God. He does not have a cigar in his lips and he does not smell like Cuba either. It is good to live in freedom and if you like baklavah the Tree God will truly make you happy in your days. But that is ok. The Tree God really wanted to put the Trees in the rose garden. He did put the hose there for a while and he did it to make sure there was baklava for the roses to enjoy, but that is not the garden of the future. The roses really needed the shade and love of the trees and that is how it goes. The hose can only go in the rose garden if the Tree God lets it do so and it does have a funny hose house in the garden that likely will always be there, unless the Tree God wants to make the Trees really grow fast and furiously. I do not know what this Tree God wants to do on that measure but I will say this, the roses have all the balkava they will ever need for eternity now and they will always be in bloom. And if you like milk and honey, the rose garden will always fill your cup with peace. Thanks!
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