An old tree grows in ancient Lod in Israel: from Google Maps
Different times
Different places
Different people
With different life-courses
So many ways to live a life
So many triggers to needless strife.
Written for What Pegman Saw
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And this tree has seen it all come, and will see it all go. So well said, without saying..
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Yet you caught the unspoken.
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Different paths, different roads, different perceived obstacles. Amazing tree, brilliantly insightful poem. Thank you Crispina. 🙂💜🌼
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In truth, it was inspired by my email to you. 🙂
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And I greatly appreciated your wise words. If I inspired a poem for you through your response I’m extremely delighted. 🙂 It is a good poem, indeed.
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I thank you. 🙂
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You are VERY welcome 🙂
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Big smilies ….. 🙂
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Wonderful truth, succinctly stated. That tree has seen all of this, I’m sure.
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I confess, it did take the finding of that tree to stir me. 🙂
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The poem matches the prompt well, in the most human and saddest of manners…
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I thank you.
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Well done, Crispina! Short and to the point…
Me likey.
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I thank you, Dale. I think *short and to the point* is becoming my mark. 🙂
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You do it so very well!!
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🙂 Honed to perfection by my impatient spirit!
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Haha!
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Hey, bear with me, I’m learning to accept compliments.
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Good. And you should accept them!
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Well, I can’t refuse them …. 🙂
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😊
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Two big smiles and a wink …
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Tee hee!
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Brillig
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Well done, in so few words. I’m currently reading a book called The Over Story ~ your Pegman reminds me of that.
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I thank you, I shall have to take a peep at The Over Story.
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Very true
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🙂
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Dear Crispina,
How many centuries this gnarled tree has seen. Well told in your short verse.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you, Rochelle. I shall get round to reading the other takes, but this week has been all … phew, no time to think … 🙂
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