Fallen angel?

Fallen angel? Due to a fall from the sky and impact upon ground, parts of the body of an angel are shattered: head, leg and left wing severed – yet, alive via other leg implanted upon earth. Once a being of light, now a black, headless, right-winged entity standing beside the street!

A crucified Christ tree?

A crucified Christ tree? Two long, stretched branches of a Talisay [tuh-lee-sigh] tree and its body (right upper trunk) look like a Crucified Christ! Amazingly, the nut tree with two trunks grows, takes root and stands within the compound of a Catholic church in a particular city in the Philippines.

Does it say something? A wood from a tree was used wherein to crucify a Man; and the wood, in the process, suffered. This time, it's the other way around: the tree is one crucified to a Man -- or, mankind!

A century-old acacia tree, older than the city itself, was cut down and uprooted to build a Pagoda Bell Tower in its place. A tree crucifixion? And humanity, in this part of the world, suffers because another oxygen-producing shed tree which cools down global warming, is lost.

The leaf

A soft, delicate and pale-green bud pops up from a bough and grows into a thick, wide and darkened leaf. 

Its tender stalk makes a sturdy branch in age. And from there sprouts seven other outgrowths – one after the other. 

The leaf outlives storms and droughts, but not its hues. It turns yellow, gold and orange. Its grip fails; it falls to the ground. 

The sun smiles at it. The moist is lost; its weight, light. It browns and it burns. 

The white smoke rises and kisses the leaves still green and clinging. It goes up to the blue and turns into a cloud. 

It rains down drizzles; the leaves wash off dust from its faces. Drops drip; roots sip all. 

It roams in the veins of the trunk and branches; and it exits through the pores of the foliage as pure air.  

It ascends the heavens; and the Big Nose finally breathes it in.

Wide-winged

Wide-winged

butterflies 

of green 

and large petals 

of orchid pink 

swarm leafless 

branches 

of a tree, 

a tree 

almost 

whole.