|
Ladan
Broujerdi
Siege
of
Trees
He
silently
stands
on
his
toes,
long
armed,
holding
eternity
in
his
tightly
closed
fists.
He
says:
”Give
me
your
hand
and
I
take
you
to
the
bravest
world”;
where
people
stand
beside
trees,
the
wind
blows
in
their
leave-hair
softly
to
make
all
the
fruits
go
back
to
branches
and
children
to
their
mothers’
arms.
The
trees
are
always
there.
They
observe
before
being
observed
and
touch
before
being
touched.
They
are
not
those
who
react,
actually
they
make
others
do
so.
They
show
us a
mixture
of
every
one’s
past
and
future
together.”
The
tree
shows
us
how
from
a
tiny
bare
seed
of
potential
the
self
can
come
into
existence
[…]
we
have
left
the
bodies
of
our
dead
in
trees,
cradled
in
its
boughs
awaiting
rebirth
or
curled
up
like
an
embryo
in
the
hollowed-out
trunk
because
the
tree
signifies
regeneration
and
impinges
on
the
heavens
and
the
underworld,
realms
of
eternity”1.
Trees
provide
an
appropriate
root
to
rebirth.
They
gather
both
death
and
life
together
since
they
are
moving
to
the
sky
and
going
to
depth
of
the
ground.
Maybe
this
is
why
I
see
them
sieging
our
lives’
spirit
and
us.
Ladan
Broujerdi
1-The
Book
of
Symbols
|
Ami
Ronnberg,
Kathleen
Martin
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