席慕容多寫愛情、人生、鄉愁，寫得極美，淡雅剔透，抒情靈動，飽含着對生命的摯愛真情。影響了整整一代人的成長曆程。
一棵開花的樹
A Blooming Tree
如何讓你遇見我
在我最美麗的時刻
爲這——
我已在佛前 求了五百年
求它讓我們結一段塵緣
May Buddha let us meet
in my most beautiful hours,
I have prayed for it
for five hundred years。
佛於是把我化做一棵樹
長在你必經的'路旁
陽光下慎重地開滿了花
朵朵都是我前世的盼望
Buddha made me a tree
by the path you may take,
In full blossoms I'm waiting in the sun
every flower carrying my previous hope。
當你走近 請你細聽
那顫抖的葉是我等待的熱情
As you are near, listen carefully
the quivering leaves are my waiting zeal,
而當你終於無視地走過
在你身後落了一地的
朋友啊 那不是花瓣
是我凋零的心
As you pass by the tree
without noticing me,
My friend, upon the ground behind you
is not the fallen petals but my withered heart。