DO YOU REMEMBER?

 DO YOU REMEMBER

ROBERT FROST

AND WHAT WAS HIS 

THAT WE HAVE LOST?

DO YOU REMEMBER

WHERE HE STOPPED HIS LITTLE HORSE

FOR POETIC THOUGHT?

HIS PRECIOUS WOODS SO

DARK AND DEEP 

WERE A TREASURE FOR US ALL

TO KEEP...

AND NOW THEY ARE A PARKING LOT

SOMEONE BOUGHT

ON A BUSINESS STREET!!

DO YOU REMEMBER OR DON'T YOU CARE

HOW PRECIOUS WOODS ARE WHEN DARK AND DEEP?

WITH TREES WE MUST SAVE AND SHARE

AND NOT REMOVE  FOR BUSINESS STREETS!

N.J.R.

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OH TO BE A TREE!

OH TO BE A TREE

STANDING QUIET AND TALL

IN ELEGANT SIMPLICITY...

TALL AND QUIET AND MAJESTIC

IN A FOREST OF MAGNIFICENT TREES....

BUT A TREE NEVER SO PROUD

AS TO HUMBLE THOSE AROUND ME

AND NEVER SO HUMBLE AS TO BE SHADOWED

UNDER THEIR CANOPY.

N.J. RAGLIONE . JAN 2013

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