<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448742" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Book, Trees and Leaves</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The book<br>at the used book store<br>had a leaf pressed between its pages, <br>its veins showing; <br>pressed flat<br>and brown; <br>an unwilling bookmark-<br>the pages of the ages.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tree<br>its mother, <br>died for those pages</div><div style="margin:10px 0">her offspring<br>flattened out<br>upon mother's page breast<br>tiny lines and squiggles<br>between the veins; <br>no tree can read<br>no leaf can comprehend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I take the leaf to give it a proper burial<br>in the compost heap<br>so that its remains<br>have a small chance<br>of one day<br>becoming part of a tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I lay its leafy body down<br>thinking; <br>'I think I shall never see<br>anything a lovely as a tree.'<br>In years<br>a bookmark it will make<br>upon my backyard landscape<br>marking Nature's Chapter entitled<br>'Ironies.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</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=448742" data-title="The Book, Trees and Leaves de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="The book at the used book store had a leaf pressed between its pages, its veins showing; pressed flat and brown; an unwilling bookmark- the pages of the ages. The tree its mother, died for those pages her offspring flattened out upon mother'..."></div> </div> </div>

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