O Gnarly Tree

image borrowed from palmer


O Gnarly Tree


O Gnarly tree
O Gnarly tree
I feel just like
You look to me.

You flinch beside one
Straight and true
I wonder what hap-
pened to you.

The same amount
of soil and sun
Why are you the
Unlucky one?

O Gnarly tree
O Gnarly tree
It all seems so
unfair to me.

Doug Palmer

"Remember April is Poetry Month".

Posted over on his site Feel Free to Laugh