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A MILE PLUS THREE



A MILE PLUS THREE

There is a giant tree in the forest by the  sea
Its tap root runs deep - a mile plus three - into the earth's floor

Its trunk is wide as the great outdoors
With limbs stretching high to hug the sky

Many years and secrets inside it does hide
 private nooks it still provides

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When it was just a sapling
in the soft grass under its bough they did lay

Lovers wrapped in love's embrace
He in leather she in lace

Horses nearby on the green grass did graze
tethered to a branch whose leaves in the wind did sway




Years later there was found carved up high in the tree
 A heart with their names for all to see

Entwined together to the end of time
a token of their love they did leave behind

They were ancestors of mine
This giant tree has almost become a family shrine

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On its ground their home still stands
fertile land cared for with loving hands

My love and I under its bough have played
Our names on the trunk are too engraved

It was here we gave our hearts away with glee
love's tap root runs deep - a mile plus three


©Kathy Collier  8 - 2008



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My art: Wild Horses  ©Kathy Collier  -  2003

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William Shakespeare
There stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees,
 King Richard II: Act 2. Scene III



A MILE PLUS THREE


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