"Oak Tree Words" (A Free Speech issue)

[villager]

Oak tree words

in a way it's a free speech issue--
those bodies in the trees speak eloquently,
with or without words.
tyrannies always try to stifle speech,
since they fear that their hold on power
is tenuous and will collapse,
and they're right--nothing survives
but the sun, and crab grass, and dandelions.
if someone tells you you can't speak,
that it's against the law or a court order,
he's wrong--unless america, at last,
has lost its precious flower of freedom
to tyranny's frost. and if the earth's turned cold,
the big winter descended, the ice returned,
it's only metaphorically. the reality
is the earth is heating up.
what my geology professor
warned about 30 years ago
is finally making headline news.
they can tell you that you can't speak,
and you can believe it, or not--
which do you want?

--Dennis Fritzinger

[Annces]

1. nice poem

If the frost is here, it won't last forever. Even ice ages end.

[villager]

2. a segue from my friend Dennis' poem to George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass?"

;-)