Two trees

[angie_p]

Hey all, I wonder if any of you or Michael can point me in the direction of a Poem he has mentioned a couple of times on his radio show, I always seem to miss it's name. It's the one he's mentioned hearing as a reading at a Wedding, about the two trees growing side by side. My friend is looking for a reading for her wedding and this sounds perfect but I don't know where to get the full version.

thanks in advance.

[Jay Budzynski]

Hi Not Sure If this is the one.




The Two Trees by William Butler Yeats.
 

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there;
From joy the holy branches start,
And all the trembling flowers they bear.
The changing colours of its fruit
Have dowered the stars with metry light;
The surety of its hidden root
Has planted quiet in the night;
The shaking of its leafy head
Has given the waves their melody,
And made my lips and music wed,
Murmuring a wizard song for thee.
There the Joves a circle go,
The flaming circle of our days,
Gyring, spiring to and fro
In those great ignorant leafy ways;
Remembering all that shaken hair
And how the winged sandals dart,
Thine eyes grow full of tender care:
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.
Gaze no more in the bitter glass
The demons, with their subtle guile.
Lift up before us when they pass,
Or only gaze a little while;
For there a fatal image grows
That the stormy night receives,
Roots half hidden under snows,
Broken boughs and blackened leaves.
For ill things turn to barrenness
In the dim glass the demons hold,
The glass of outer weariness,
Made when God slept in times of old.
There, through the broken branches, go
The ravens of unresting thought;
Flying, crying, to and fro,
Cruel claw and hungry throat,
Or else they stand and sniff the wind,
And shake their ragged wings; alas!
Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:
Gaze no more in the bitter glass.

[angie_p]

Thank you for that, although it is a beautiful poem and shares a similar theme I don't think it is the one. What little reasearch I have been able to do has come up with a possible title of "Shared Times" but as i don't know the author googling "Shared Times Poem" isn't helping much.

[D - J]

I heard it to, however I'm sorry I can't recall which show it was on, however here is another one that Michael mentioned and read out on the theme of weddings:

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Then Almitra spoke again and said, "And what of Marriage, master?"

And he answered saying:

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.

You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.

Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness,

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together, yet not too near together:

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

[angie_p]

Bingo .. that's the one.  Thank You.