Monday, July 16, 2018

Tree (Monday Poem)

by Douglas Florian


Out of the earth
Springs a trunk.
Out of the trunk
Springs a branch.
Out of the branch
Springs a stem.
Out of the stem
Springs a leaf.
Inside the leaf
Are rivers
And oceans
Of life.



from Bing Bang Bong
by Douglas Florian
1994, Harcourt

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