The Growing Trees

Neil McLeod 1947 (Oxford)



The Growing TreesWhen I was a younger man, I looked out of the windowWell established conifersLevel with a tiled roof Gazing through the glass.As those years come and pass.Crowns stark again the sky.My life is passing by.
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Submitted by NeilMcLeod on April 14, 2015

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Neil McLeod

Born in Oxford, raised in Kenya, past winner of Los Slamgeles Poetry Slam and author of abitingchance.blogspot.comand "The First Thanksgiving".Doctor McLeod is a performing poet who has recited at Highland Games, dinners and Burns Nights for the last 36 years. He is happily married, lives and works in Los Angeles,has three children, and practices as a dentist on Sunset Boulevard:http://www.drneilmcleod.com/He can be contacted by e-mail at drneilmcleod@yahoo.com and will willingly entertain requests to share his work with permission. more…

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