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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Some Pine For Its Past

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 This Tree Has Seen Better Days

But

the

branches

still

have

their

rhythmic

sways.




No autumnal photograph
with leaves about to fall
But a massive evergreen
still standing tall

One million pine needles
breath their last breath
May we all be so
defiant of death



© Paul Oliverio
Bartholemew's Tree
2014
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 6, 2014 at 6:26 AM

    Under an olive tree, Mr. Carpeo said
    his beads, his hands— his branches.
    Given the span given by God
    They say, it takes one hundred years
    For a tree to grow, one hundred years
    For a tree to flourish, one hundred years
    To end. But humans made short shrift
    Of God's plan (for trees), and themselves.
    A prayer is, in deed, in order.

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  2. Paul OliverioJune 6, 2014 at 6:29 AM

    Repeat after me:
    Hail Mary full of GRACE...HailMary full of GRACE...
    HailMary fullofGRACE...HailMaryfullofGRACE...

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