Twisted Oak at 5 Rivers Resource Center

While hiking the trails at 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center the other day I ran across this incredible water oak. I was baffled as to what made it grow so... chaotically. That started me down a rabbit hole of what events in history this Twisted Oak had played witness to not to mention how many hurricanes it had survived. That rabbit hole ended in this poem.

"Twisted Oak" by Stuart Reb Donald copyright 2022.

Twisted Oak, what made you so?
Sprawling like the octopi
Your limbs like tentacles towards the sky
Your species grows straight or don't you know?

Twisted Oak, what have you seen
Of wars and storms and tragedy
Strong like granite; fragile as autumn's leaves
Standing sentry over this crucial scene

Twisted Oak, what do you know
Of history's dispassionate parade
Of mistakes mankind has made
Do you know what comes tomorrow

Twisted Oak, what would you say
Would you share your wisdom with our kind
Or sing of fields and rivers wide
Or fold your limbs like hands and pray

Twisted Oak, what would you do
If the fates granted the power
To nurture man or society scour
Twisted Oak, what would you do

What would you do?

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