Treesong
Alder
Fire and water
The blood red sharf
The sound of the raven
Ahead of the raft
Apple
The star of knowledge
Love and rebirth
Fertile and heavy
Falls back to the Earth
Ash
A key to wisdom
With roots in the past
Growth through the worlds
Tells future at last
Beech
A fountain of wisdom
With echos of age
Methods well tested
Can break any cage
Birch
White from the ashes
Protecting from harm
A beginning in silence
To grow and be calm
Blackthorn
The piercing thorn
Gives strength to persist
See the unseen
And know when to resist
Elder
The shortest time
Shows beginning and end
Though time may harm
She will also mend
Furze
Continuous flower
Stands out like a star
Guiding the seeker
Links worlds near and far
Hawthorn
Power from beyond
To be pure and aware
Chaste and protecting
In a May ma
Hazel
Tree of magick
And wand of the seer
Like unseen water
Inspiration flows
Holly
Best in a fight
The warrior's spear
The darkness is rising
Bringing stre
Honeysuckle
The sweetness of the centre
The real self is shown
Achieving the way
The
Ivy
The spiral dance
That taps deep within
Gives knowledge of growth
You nee
Mistletoe
All-heal gathered
With sickles of gold
The spirit path
From times of old
Oak
Green and enduring
The strength of the king
Doorway to wisdom
To summer from spring
Poplar
The strength to endure
A shield from woe
The gift of the winds
Gives power to know
Reed
Knowledge preserved
And direction found
Clarity and purpose
Are seen all around
Rowan
The quickening flame
That guards all from charm
The blood-stained rune
In the magician's palm
Silver Fir (Elm)
A glimps of the future
Gives sight of the road
Draws strength from experience
To lighten the
Spindle
The flash of lightning
Illuminates the way
The passage from darkness
To the birth of the day
Vine
An aid to prophecy
Releases the sight
Harvests the omens
To grow by their light
Willow
Flowing with the tides
Of woman and moon
The gift of the seed
The Goddess's boon
Yew
From Winter's tide
The bow shoots true
The fountain of time
Turns old into new
Grove
Joined in a circle
Faces raised to the sun
Through the moon's cycle
The dance is begun
The Sea
In the watery depths
Lie the secrets she brings
Now hidden now seen
In a flying crane's wings
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