Wisdom's Tree

Fruitions seed is larger still,
get out your watering can

Fifty past one hundred years,
to shade what light began

Wisdom’s tree the hardest wood,
 millennium to rise

Truth ingrained, its bark unstained
—transcendence once denied 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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