Your Poetry Dot Com - Leaf and Needle

Array ( [sid] => 183084 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Leaf and Needle [time] => 2016-05-12 22:58:04 [hometext] => The inexplicable force of which none are exempt [bodytext] => Two saplings in a forest grew,
side by side, a foot, then two.
sires both, unknown unsought;
mighty Oak or scrawny Pine,
both to young to lend it thought;
unconcerned for what they were-
caring not who came from who-
hierarchy/'/s cruelness yet unlearned.

Sharing sun, (a sapling/'/s fun),
grew these spindly dowels of wood;
the same they looked, as they felt;
both knew that this was good.

Then of a day, for one alone,
an infant leaf to life thus leapt-
a pride unknown, now full grown
whispered to it “Oaks are best”.

T/'/other tasted virgin shame,
needles poking what lay in store,
for plain to see, none to blame;
life decreed two friends no more. [comments] => 5 [counter] => 163 [topic] => 21 [informant] => Invierno [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems ) Your Poetry Dot Com - Leaf and Needle

Leaf and Needle
Date: Thursday, 12th May 2016 @ 10:58:04 PM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: Invierno

Two saplings in a forest grew,
side by side, a foot, then two.
sires both, unknown unsought;
mighty Oak or scrawny Pine,
both to young to lend it thought;
unconcerned for what they were-
caring not who came from who-
hierarchy/'/s cruelness yet unlearned.

Sharing sun, (a sapling/'/s fun),
grew these spindly dowels of wood;
the same they looked, as they felt;
both knew that this was good.

Then of a day, for one alone,
an infant leaf to life thus leapt-
a pride unknown, now full grown
whispered to it “Oaks are best”.

T/'/other tasted virgin shame,
needles poking what lay in store,
for plain to see, none to blame;
life decreed two friends no more.

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