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The Last Tree

Aug 22, 2019, 6:16 PM

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This artwork was created for Omada Dance in 2008

This poem was written in 2008.

Today it is dedicated to the Tribal People of the Amazon.

I dreamed about a pirate ship

sailing the turquoise sea

the pirates wild and crazy women

one of them was me

I looked up at the mast, so high

and saw it was a tree

a gentle swaying tree of life

escaped catastrophe

My instincts whispered “keep it safe

nurture, love and feed

protect it from all human harm

sail away from greed”

That night I heard a subtle cry

I touched the leafy mast

a seed pod dropped into the ocean

the tree said “that’s my last”

About the Author

Maiyan is a visual artist and writer. She has worked as a professional artist and writer in Israel, South Africa, Mauritius and Fiji and created several large public artworks. Numerous short stories are published online and in print. Returning to Israel in 2022, she now lives in Kiryat Tivon in the North. Her latest mission is combining paintings and writing into a collective work which tells the unusual stories and extraordinary situations they survived while maintaining their Jewish identity. As a social entrepreneur, she initiated a tech start-up and is currently building it up between painting and writing.