TREES

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A group devoted to the art of trees: free medium. Without trees the world would be dead and a place of disaster. With trees the world can tackle global warming. Hug a tree and you hug the earth, you hug yourself and your neighbors. Without trees, no love!

Without love, no trees.

A sequel to the mail art project SIGNS and STONES and TREES (of 1998).

Guido Vermeulen started this group. After his death the IUOMA members keep it alive with posting photos and drawings of TREES in memory of Guido.

Location: Worldwide, global
Members: 233
Latest Activity: Apr 23

THE MAGIC OF TREES

Dear Guido,

I love trees!

Trees are so good to us, giving us oxygen to breathe, cleaning our water, providing shade in their life and shelter in their death.

They give us this paper, the pencil I write words with, and the envelope I painted.

Trees are magical, like all plants, magical little things that grow into magical big thins that are essential to so many of us other magical life forms in this amazing, magical universe.

TREES ARE MAGIC.

When I am with trees, big and small, I wonder like a child.

I know the scientific explanations of their life cycles and the processes of their doings.

I have even listened to trees as recorded by a hydrophone as their cells thirsted for water.

Still, no amount of knowledge can evaporate the mist of awe and wonder I feel in the presence of trees.

Trees are our kindred.

They, too, are born to live. And born to die.

In between they are silent witnesses to the magic of the universe.

Happy Earth Day,

Sarah Jo Pender, USA

From the Indiana Women’s Prison

April 2012

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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 30, 2012 at 5:40pm: Peace in the trees, from Imelda Wubben, The Netherlands

Triggered me to write this poem:

Het omgekeerde beeld van vrede is de oorlog.

De afgeleide realiteit hiervan is macht aan allen die macht beminnen

als een wreed beginsel omwille van zichzelf.

Wie zich hieraan niet stoort

gelukkig nog

zijn bomen, vogels en sommige mensen op godverlaten of godinvergeten

eilanden, maar zelfs dit wordt een extreem

moeilijke oefening,

haast alsof je leert hoe een hulpeloze haai met een mes

de golven moet klieven voor meer en betere stroomlijning.

Allen oefenen hun stem volgens de geluiden

die zij horen van vogels en bomen en verbannen vissen

maar stemmen niet of niet meer...

of verliezen hun stem in de branding van wat mogelijk nog komen zal.

Ah, de stilte zal zo luid klinken

als de atoombommen op Moruroa of Bikini.

GV

30 April 2012, op de vooravond van mei 1

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Comment by Amy Irwen on April 30, 2012 at 4:56pm: I love Lilacs Guido *!*

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 29, 2012 at 6:32pm: More blossoms in my garden !!!

Comment by maria palomo on April 29, 2012 at 4:33am: EL ARBOL DE LA RIBERA

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 28, 2012 at 9:12pm: De boom staart met het hulpeloze kateract van uilenogen naar het domme gansje.

Blind voor de waarschuwing zal hemelsblauw wellicht

veranderen in zombieroodjas graan.

Ik sla het raam dicht tevergeefs.

De omkadering straalt een veel te sterk licht uit!

Helaas vergat ik mijn zonnenbril.

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on April 28, 2012 at 4:37pm

Comment by stripygoose on April 26, 2012 at 11:45pm

Comment by stripygoose on April 26, 2012 at 11:44pm

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 26, 2012 at 3:08pm: Blue Mail art and trees from Katerina Nikoltsou, Greece

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 26, 2012 at 3:07pm: Tree art from JJ Alltheway, USA

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