Vernon Witmer Poet Rhyme

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This Only Tree

Once a tree 
That walked as man
Tasting breezes moved 
In seed with currents 
Tossed to churning seas
Branching footprints 
Sinking upward 
In a breath 
Of stars and moon.
Time the poison potion taken
For bones excused as broken splints
Shadows walking sideways into suns
Anchored belly born to new eclipse
Voices silent spoke of him 
Without a sound from lips
Tongue to tongue 
Tasting flakes of kissing snows
Trapped and bleeding 
With the chore of laughter 
From each gun,
Wandering songs unsung;
Nocturnal dramas lavish hand
Stopping all external movement,
Breaking in a bended way 
All bodies lost - 
Like hot fists pounding in summer sand
Like lost hopes sifted, drifting
Blowing through the fingers of each hand,
And he will walk as man 
Once before, 
Again.

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