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A Single Tree

June 9, 2010
By ClareBear07 GOLD, Glendale, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost

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That single tree I see so far away
So tall and proud
You'd think nothing could cut it down
That single tree I see so far away
All bent and withered
From what the world delivered
In time things come and go
this single tree so far away
Will be a stump
sad and lonely
it lost everything it had
Soon it will rot and crack
but forever that single tree I saw so far away
Will stay in my memory

© Delia R., Phoenix, AZ

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An oak tree stump in my back yard.
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