Barney Taylor Poet Verse

The Willow Tree

The Willow Tree
stands by the water,
not the tallest,
never stronger -
Than mighty pines
and oaks that grow
taller and live
longer
Yet flexible her
branches, her
swaying limbs as the
wind blows
-That stormy
destroying wind
which picks up
larger trees and
downward throws-
Is cut into a
thousand pieces by
the whipping
branches and reduced
to a whispered hiss
By the little leaves
resistless motion.
The storm is stilled
by this.

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Barbara Gorelick July 29, 2014 at 8:57 AM Love the way you described the wind blowing through the leaves. I grew up with a huge willow tree in the back yard..oh if that tree could talk..we played for hours under its drooping branches. BG