Tree-Home
A bird sings to my childhood,
Through red of oak foliage,
Trickling down centuries old bark,
And young rusted nails.
The little boy calls out,
From all those years ago,
Who use to leave his cries,
On the autumn wind.
Now Stands before himself,
Looking out the treehouse,
no longer able to be a home,
Wondering.
Who took that little boy away,
And put me in his place?
About this poem
At the age of 8-10, I built this makeshift tree house in the woods near where I lived from random old pieces of fence wood in the neighborhood, from nails found outside other homes, and from rocks I used to hammer I would find in the creek nearby. Just so I had a safe place when home didn't feel like home and just so wounds could feel like they had a space to heal. I returned to this spot, 8 years later and I sat there on one of the trees many broken branches and wrote this.
Written on November 15, 2018
Submitted by Londinum on March 16, 2022
Modified on March 31, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | XXXA XXXX XAXX XX |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 370 |
| Words | 84 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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