<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=456982" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Tree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The weathered tree stripped bare<br>broken branches hang still<br>as though to scar its nature<br>no birds nest here any more<br>a thing of beauty has passed<br>into a beauty of another kind<br>colourless in the backdropp of sky<br>roots rise and fall into the ground<br>etchings of forgotten loves<br>remain as eternal memories<br>no lovers shade here now<br>the tree stands as though defiant<br>unwilling to relinquish to time<br>that which grew so tall<br>not dead, perhaps dying<br>stripped and broken it stands<br>the weathered tree<br>a work of life's true beauty</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Holloway">Matthew Holloway</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=456982" data-title="The Tree de Matthew Holloway" data-description="The weathered tree stripped bare broken branches hang still as though to scar its nature no birds nest here any more a thing of beauty has passed into a beauty of another kind colourless in the backdropp of sky roots rise and fall into the ground ..."></div> </div> </div>

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