The Courageous Little Hero
...Even today in Texas
after twelve decades
people are narrating
the story of John,
the courageous little hero
who fought two heartless outlaws;
was he allowed to own a gun
and protect his mom ...
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Categories:
ironwood tree, anger, boy, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Butterfly Effect
...Once a lost and lonely soul
Too torchered to ever see
That a man could come in my life and know
All the beauty that hid in me
You showed me ways to live and love
A life I never thought could be
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Categories:
ironwood tree, change, confidence, encouraging, fate,
Form: Ballad
The Ironwood Tree
...The best fire wood to be found
If dried it cannot be split
Extremely dense and heavy
And as hard as nails
Leathery evergreen leaves
Red bark peeling from the trunk
Whitish flowers, red berrie...
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Categories:
ironwood tree, nature,
Form: Dodoitsu
Birds and Water
...crows seem to be the first to find it
sometimes it bubbles up
from under a rock
or out of the side of a hill
the crows know where it is
they feel it when it come to the surface
she was sick...
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Categories:
ironwood tree, life, loss, for her,
Form: Free verse
Our Ironwood Tree
...Not to far
From our backyard
Grows a large
Ironwood Tree.
Its trunk is carved
With a heart
That holds the love
You promised me.
Every day
I pass that way
Too enjoy the shade
of our I...
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Categories:
ironwood tree, love,
Form: Quatrain