Day 210:

Jan 26- Tu Bishvat, Jewish Arbor Day, done in Yiddish Folk Verse: Stanzaic,any number of quatrains, occasionally written in sixains. Accentual, written with 4 stressed syllables per line and any number of unstressed syllables, rhyme xaxa, xbxb, etc. x is unrhymed. Sometimes abab cdcd, sixains in rhyme aabccb ddeffe, etc. Title Jewish Arbor Day

The trees survive because we strive

Actions, not words protect each tree

Posterity demands our best

Future generations to see.

All nature call for stewardship

Whether domesticated or wild

Flora, fauna, tis God’s garden

Tending parents to each child.