Sins of Trees

An ancient oak has been cut down Its leaves were always falling down Its sin was being messy An aged Weeping Fig on a paved parkway Town Council all agreed it could not stay Its sin was its roots that invaded the asphalt A towering Maple that grew next door Was also a victim of this war Its sin - was growing too close to the house The sins of trees are really sins of man. Who planted them without a plan. Contemplate these empty spaces and weep. These places left where a tree once stood Disturb a soul like nothing should. Accommodate and let them live Tail-Rhyme A Tail-Rhyme (also known as a tailed-rhyme) is a type of poem that has a very specific structure. In short, the piece begin with either a couplet or a triplet of lines that consist of rhymed lines. This set of either a couplet or triplet is then followed by a "tail", which is a fourth line that does not rhyme with the couplet or triplet that preceded it. This tail line tends to be shorter in length than those lines within the couplet or triplet. This type of poetry can also be used with stanza, known as a tail-rhyme stanza, but in these pieces, all of the tail lines rhyme with each other.