The Tree Poem by Glenda Cimino

The Tree

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Life is a graceful
magnificent tree
planted in
infinity
each life
is a leaf
that comes
to grief
but the tree grows tall
and its roots grow deep
and new leaves grow
while old ones sleep

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
this is one of my first poems. I wrote it when I was 17 in Atlanta, Georgia, long before I had ever heard of Ygdrasil, the world tree....
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Tom Jarrell 01 May 2022

I saxified the bezoardic minims of my genarch detenebrated by madstone, stounded hystricine napiform, drozing themselves through the negus strephographias at dealbation looping for an anguineous fizgig...

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Robert Lambert 24 October 2020

I like the Poem the Tree by Glenda Cimino I am reminded of another poem about a Tree by WinifredLet

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James Fitzpatrick 02 January 2015

If you wrote this at seventeen then you are a poet. Time, like with the tree, molds the branches, steadies the stalk glues the roots of ability to the page....

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Glenda Cimino 29 November 2016

thank you, James......

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Glenda Cimino

Glenda Cimino

Atlanta, Georgia USA
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