The Arborist (rewrite)

20 Dec 2015

·bensid

Ascend on mechanical limbs,or braided vine. As on orders you soar through electric fields. Carving forms from my greens and browns, And exiling the dead. But not death.... Death does not become me, For life you nurture along prosperous paths, Preserving my limbs ever reaching and eclipsing their earthly surrounds. An oath made, a promise kept, allows the new to thrive. We shall meet again, a year or so from now, Not as friends nor enemies, but partners in our mortal dance, 'Till ones death or demise. For this is the way of the arborist and me (tree)

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bensid

Not much to say really I'm an arborist and love doing thing out doors, I enjoy reading poetry yet have not studied it in anyway nor do I know much about types or forms,but decided to give it a bit of a go. And comments and constructive criticism will...

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