Weep No More, My Willow Tree! Poem by Magdalena Biela

Grow wise roots on wavy billow. Weep no more, live lives with thrill....// The thrilling poem penned

In my simple mind this beautiful poem tells me to seek happiness, achieve the highest, with all you effort but tempered with wisdom and do not do it at the expense of others-10

Magdalena, I had to come back to this poem, to feel the presence of the wonderful WILLOW TREE which is so sheltering with its over-arching branches, and then your words which offer shelter too. Words can do so many things. In this poem everything they do is positive, supportive, liberating! You are telling a weeping willow to weep no more - I find that sentiment moving in a startling way, as if you have transformed another creature's sad existence just by speaking compassionate words. Behind your speech in his poem is a deep trust in language to change reality for the better, to give someone else their just reward, and (in the words of T. S. Eliot) to redeem the time.

Your refrain expresses a central truth of human life: AN IF IT HARM NONE, DO AS YE WILL. Rabelais put a similar motto on the door of his utopian city and the Doctor's Oath begins (I believe) FIRST DO NO HARM. So your refrain emphasizes a core moral value which is certainly achievable by all people of good will. It liberates us to engage in the pursuit of happiness with a clear conscience.It's a fine example of moral philosophy.And one of the lines struck me as the essence of a personal philosophy for such a setting, namely, GROW, REACH HIGH, AND YOUR LIFE FULFILL. Living the life your poem assets will mean the only tears to be shed will be tears of joy!