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S Arthur Grey
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since 2001-03-19
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woven by a poet's loom

0 posted 2004-01-14 04:51 PM


On an odd-named street


Once a weeping willow tree
grew large in the puzzled youth of me
A canopy sheltering from a lie they’d bred
shading tears I didn’t know to shed

My friends and I would gather there
and imagine another life in where
the disappointment would not be heaped
upon young shoulders to be later reaped

The willow limbs would dance in spring
in yellow-green where birds would sing
Parent grackles would chase grey squirrels
along large branches and around trunk burls

This was a tree that I could climb
and from a memory put down this rhyme
It had a place in the youth of me
that bitter-sweet old willow tree






©  011404
(Thanks for the idea, Professor)



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nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200
Between the Lines
1 posted 2004-01-14 05:01 PM


very nice... My willow is just a baby..and I never was good at climbing  but I have trees like that in my back and side yard that have many memories for me...

*s
M

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
2 posted 2004-01-14 05:02 PM


A very beautifully told memory.

I love the willow trees.

Love, Margherita

Sadelite
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since 2003-10-11
Posts 2519

3 posted 2004-01-14 05:07 PM


S. arthur,

  I enjoyed this very much.  It was a lovely
diversion.
           ~Sadelite~

1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace
4 posted 2004-01-14 10:51 PM


sag...thank you for taking us to your secret place...h
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