<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415271" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To a Blossoming Pear Tree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beautiful natural blossoms,<br>Pure delicate body,<br>You stand without trembling.<br>Little mist of fallen starlight,<br>Perfect, beyond my reach,<br>How I envy you.<br>For if you could only listen,<br>I would tell you something,<br>Something human.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An old man<br>Appeared to me once<br>In the unendurable snow.<br>He had a singe of white<br>Beard on his face.<br>He paused on a street in Minneapolis<br>And stroked my face.<br>Give it to me, he begged.<br>I'll pay you anything.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I flinched. Both terrified,<br>We slunk away,<br>Each in his own way dodging<br>The cruel darts of the cold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beautiful natural blossoms,<br>How could you possibly<br>Worry or bother or care<br>About the ashamed, hopeless<br>Old man? He was so near death<br>He was willing to take<br>Any love he could get,<br>Even at the risk<br>Of some mocking policeman<br>Or some cute young wiseacre<br>Smashing his dentures,<br>Perhaps leading him on<br>To a dark place and there<br>Kicking him in his dead groin<br>Just for the fun of it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Young tree, unburdened<br>By anything but your beautiful natural blossoms<br>And dew, the dark<br>Blood in my body drags me<br>Down with my brother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Arlington+Wright">James Arlington Wright</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415271" data-title="To a Blossoming Pear Tree de James Arlington Wright" data-description="Beautiful natural blossoms, Pure delicate body, You stand without trembling. Little mist of fallen starlight, Perfect, beyond my reach, How I envy you. For if you could only listen, I would tell you something, Something human. An old man Appeared..."></div> </div> </div>

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