stark silhouette

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Another game of magnetic poetry online describing a dead tree standing in neighbor’s ditch; stripped bare of bark, stark white silhouette…

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  1. Mish
    Jul 28, 2019 @ 15:43:49

    And so sorry for the late response!

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  2. Mish
    Jul 28, 2019 @ 15:43:23

    Nice! It’s great when those magnetic words find a way to paint a vivid picture and message. You did it well. Trees are so precious, even in their afterlife!

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  3. robtkistner
    Jul 01, 2019 @ 11:43:20

    Thanks for sharing this fine piece! Excellent write. See you in a couple weeks Lynn. In honor of Solli Raphael: A Smidgen of Thought

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  4. Sarah Russell
    Jun 29, 2019 @ 01:28:47

    I love poets who can do this. My poems like this never really gel. Congrats, Lynn.

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  5. Bryan Ens
    Jun 28, 2019 @ 22:36:14

    Using the magnets almost makes the poem look like an old tree!

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  6. memadtwo
    Jun 28, 2019 @ 20:37:30

    Trees are full of slow peace. (K)

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  7. Jane Dougherty
    Jun 28, 2019 @ 02:47:37

    There is something very permanent-looking about old trees, like monuments.

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  8. kanzensakura
    Jun 27, 2019 @ 19:37:51

    Yeppers. The old trees fight hatd, don’t they? A wonderful drawing of how the tree looks!

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  9. sanaarizvi
    Jun 27, 2019 @ 15:56:14

    This is gorgeously drawn!๐Ÿ’– I wonder what the trees must feel about mankind and its ways ..

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  10. Glenn A. Buttkus
    Jun 27, 2019 @ 15:25:27

    Often new life sprouts from the rot and ash of a stump or dying tree; likfe prevails

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  11. Bjรถrn Rudberg (brudberg)
    Jun 27, 2019 @ 15:01:59

    I can see that old tree… and I have often noted how long it takes before all life is gone from the trunk of those old trees.

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