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Four late hot days, heat starts to rise
early morning while I’m out walking.
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I like sitting in the shade of a Red Oak,
a young tree hardly grown but tall,
and will still be growing many years
after I have left this earth and its troubles.
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The leaves still green have lost their vigour,
in a few weeks they’ll fall, a blaze of red,
dry and clattering at the barest touch of a breeze
I think there’s a beauty in the bare tree.
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when the leaves have fallen they’ll lie
covering the roots, to feed the waiting soil.
A light rain falling, the leaves sheen returns,
for just awhile, for just a day or two longer.
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©robcullen15092020.
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