Only on mature trees do you appear,
those large and sturdy with years of age.
You will nurture many of those around you,
creatures with wings, tails, claws and paws.
They say you stand for patience and fruition,
a symbol of long / hard labor, one of strength.
Call you the fruit of the enclosed land,
that is only assigned to major trees.
Top Nut, “Little Acorn” of the Mighty Old Oak!
• 10″ x 10″ • © Lisa Rivas • “Top Nut”
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas
Thou wert a bauble once, a cup and ball
which babes might play with;
and the thievish jay,
seeking her food, with ease might have purloined
the auburn nut…
The Yardley Oak, William Cowper (1791)
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read more the poem: Little By Little…
