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The Royal Palm

It's not as if I grew this tall To be a birdhouse. Blackbirds Of the raucous cry: don't you know I'm royalty--King of the Yard? And those congregations setting up Church in my noble top, did they ask If I were Pentecostal? No! I'm The Pope. I'll take them to task, Me! I'm the Immaculate Conception, See! I was there on the road to Emmaus. Don't get me wrong, I'm not King Kong, But I am plenty strong. Beware My fury, you useless potpourri-- One match to my tush, And I'm The Burning Bush.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2008




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Date: 3/25/2009 6:55:00 AM
Clever, Nola. I love trees, alike the Greeks, I suppose, who worshiped them for the deity within. Everything was alive. Yep! The trees are good people, great people, royalty. And how about Cezanne? Talk about a love for trees, his are the greatest in the medium. Love, daver
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