Tree of Life - Concrete Cleaved Tanka

- -be- -calm - head-- -not a breath - a trophy------- --------dead - stag--------- --gunshot wounds -  culled for what--- -frogs floating - for pleasure--. -tree- -of life- -still- -growing- --------------------------------
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October 20, 2017 at 8:57 AM
This is very clever..
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October 20, 2017 at 7:30 PM
Thank you for your appreciation, humbled I am.
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October 19, 2017 at 1:20 PM
Interesting write! Great images!
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October 20, 2017 at 7:36 PM
Thanks Kim, it was so much easier writing it than posting it, can't understand why P. S doesn't allow the use of HTML in the comment boxes?
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