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Sycamore
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Sycamore |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania 
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A family’s like a sycamore tree With roots that shape our destiny. Each branch a vital living part,Each leaf a beating of the heart. Of common roots, of common earth.Each little twig of common worth. From just one trunk the branches rise, and seek the sun of summer skies. The silhouette includes each limb.Each leaf of gold is valued kin.. And each has purpose,each will grow to shade the other leaves below.The more the tree with leaves enhanced, the more the tree will sway and dance. The more the twigs that grow in spring, the more the winter limbs will sing And from a gift of common need the tree will bear and scatterseed. Among the offspring, stalks and shoots, will be the kin of future roots. .And when the seasons have expired the lovelytree so welladmired, Will fall to earth and there will be the food to grow a future tree. A living tree, a wooden shrine, is just a being of its time,In future ages they’ll forget, the tree which flourished to beget. But roots are roots, that never die, and all the past rests inthe eyeFor long ago a seedling bore a lovely, stately sycamore |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
"Each leaf of gold is valued kin..." you make me want to play in your garden, Lady Santos... what do you want to bet that my very notion will some day be fact?  |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Elizabeth Now that is a tree worth taking care off. Lovely |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
Dangling from every branch is a beauty of heart, family, and love. No tree could ever look prettier and besides the fact that I am an avid fan of yours, I am also a fan of shape poems. You are amazing from root to the top leaf. Loved this and your rhyme never missed a beat. |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Oh my! Liz dear...this is so beautiful and I shed a tear reading it. You are a very special person.  |
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Mysteria 
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Liz, that was supercallafragilistic! Just beautiful poetry and presentation (you been drawing with your crayons again I see.)  Bootyful! |
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GG Member Elite
since 2002-12-03
Posts 3532Lost in thought |
Families are so amazing when things are as they should be... This is a lovely poem and your love for your own family shines through in it  Always, Alyssa He was a man of sorrows |
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Toerag Member Ascendant
since 1999-07-29
Posts 5622Ala bam a |
Lizzie...you have to be one of the most incredible people I've ever not met but read....This is just breathtakingly beautiful...(is breathtakingly a word?)..if it's not...it should be.....under the definition of you... |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
This is lovely, Elizabeth! Corinne |
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