a forest...



behold;
a forest,
telling time,
with hidden away rings...

before my eye,
under the blue sky,
a seedling,
yet three feet tall...

a couple feet away,
one shading the day,
over sixty feet tall,
making the little one small...

the time and space in between,
few have seen,
watered through time,
a parable written rhyme...

one beginning its life,
the other having seen the strife,
weathering each storm,
looking down upon the newborn...

one without many is but a tree,
many of the few set the eye free,
seeing the changing of each season,
giving to others hope and reason...
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Submitted on April 17, 2015

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Scheme XXAX BBXC DDCC EEAA FFXX GGHH
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 545
Words 100
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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