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: 242
Latest Activity: May 4
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
Discussion Forum
Trees. 2 Replies
Autumn, forest, solitude. Heaven on earth. Continue
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Started by Judith Dagan. Last reply by Judy Skolnick Oct 22, 2022.
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Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 15, 2011 at 11:30pm
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Trees...evergreen,,,of the Season!
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Comment by ANA MARTA AUSTIN on December 15, 2011 at 10:44am
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"ÁRVORES POSTAIS"
Selos brasileiros homenageiam as nossas árvores....
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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 15, 2011 at 1:20am
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Error correction: the beach WHERE both of them (last line of woman caught between rocks and trees)
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Sunrise in Belfast, Maine
Received from Lynn Palmiter Jr
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Schunnemunk pine tree, received from Lynn Palmiter Jr, USA
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Comment by Kerri Pullo on December 14, 2011 at 11:01pm
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Guido,
The honor is inexplicable.
Beyond words,
Kerri
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Woman caught between rocks and trees
Dedicated to Kerri Pullo and Simonne Pauwels
She eats a sandwich made of stolen sea food
Worms in driftwood wanna speak to you,
she says with a swift waitress voice
to the smallest sea coast she ever saw.
In the bedroom he plays Bach because
nobody else will warm these sheets of music.
She wears an angel on her hat, goes thru his head,
because her heart swims with the dreams of disappearing fish.
I’ve buried my eyes under the giant roots of trees,
they are almost a thousand years old, he tries to explain in vain.
I’ve buried mine in rocks, she simply sings
with a seductive mermaid voice to make peace between them
as soft as possible and as understanding as the sounds of spoon and room.
He acts with hidden words instead of uncovered leaves:
I did not know rocks were almost mirrors in the golden sun!
This sentence feels quite like a quiet kiss of autumn on my lips,
such an aria and echo of her soul looking for the holes in bones.
He simply smiles.
She takes one of the rocks to show him it smiles back
Waves intervene in the debate
Wonder how to show them how to really kiss
How to kiss their naked bodies without drowning
both of them at once
How to breathe like these yielding trees near the beach,
this beach were both of them were born in different decades.
Guido Vermeulen
December 2011
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Comment by Zois on December 14, 2011 at 9:03pm
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artistamp Tree . drawing of The Tree of Poetry which is cultivated by Tiziana Baracchi, AMBASCIATA DI VENEZIA.
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I love all of these. Thank you, Guido, for creating it.
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Photos from small trees forwarded by soul mate Simonne Pauwels on the Fiji Isles
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