The theme this week is fast.
Many of us go through life at such a fast pace. Running here and there but at the end of our allotted span, few live beyond four score years. The trees in the pics below were planted as a temporary ‘grave’ for a worker who was bitten by an unnamed poisonous animal. They were here even before Fort Brooke was built in 1862. How fast time has passed.
The tree is pitiful that stands alone
Its branches fragile and its roots uncertain.
The dew may give it moisture, but the wind
Blows it to one side and the other
Composed by Lu Yen @ Chun Yang-Tzu believed to be translated by Clement Egerton : an extract from the novel The Golden Lotus, a translation of the Chinese novel Chin Ping Mei
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The marble stairs are deserted; only the autumn dew visits them now.
The moon shines lonely where once were dancing feet and merry songs.
The dancers are departed: the singers have gone elsewhere.
They return no more.
Today they are but ashes in the Western Tombs.
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To cheer up an otherwise somber post is my last entry 
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Romantic Ah Tuong will find time passing by not fast as he exhorts the wooden bird to fly, fly high into the sky for its freedom into the wide open spaces. 
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On this day in 2008-The Hutton Lodge, Penang and Penang food:
is tat u a tuong? hahaha
it was a man who happened to be there
Time travels especially fast when I’m on holiday! But slow down when I work! Why?!! I want the reverse!
Oh, such a huge tree! can’t even hug it!
yeah, that is an uber huge tree indeed!
when we compare ourselves to the flow of time and history, we only occupy such small fragment of it. time passes real fast, indeed!
When time travels too fast, lets slow down to smell the roses and taste the freshness of morning dew. Since time waits for no man, lets enjoy today which is our present.
Those trees are awesome!
And what a wonderful idea to plant it in the memory of a fallen man!
It is weekend again. And is my working weekend.
Anyhow, happy weekend to you.
Very soon your Benghui will be in University, then start work, then get married and eventually you’ll become Ah Kong! hahaha….
I’m waiting to be a grandmother.
I love to think of trees as a tangible link to history. What events has that huge tree seen while on this planet. Happy weekend, an excellent take on the theme
what a great story! a life lost symbolized by a tree…amazing!
Very creative and interesting take on this week’s theme. A post whose thoughts are definitely worth pondering over.
as for me,i like it – i like time to pass very fast,faster even better for a reason .
Beautiful monochrome shot.
Beautiful huge tree!
I think that I shall never see
a poem as lovely as a tree…
Wow, those are big trees. Very interesting. Nice poems to tell the story.
that tree is very huge! Yes time flies by so fast, I can’t imagine I’m here for almost a year.