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The learned men came to see
What could be done about that tree
Stout and strong and big and tall,
Faith inside that garden’s wall.
Machines and steel their only hope
Sturdy chains and heavy rope,
They wrap around that solid tree
And yank it for a student’s fee…
Zellie M. Quinn
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About Zellie M. Quinn
I first started writing poetry in the early 1980′s while in the military. I found that I could write on the back-blank side of pages of important documents all the soldier poems welling up in me. The guys discovered the poems and began to take them. This proved to be a not-so-good thing, since during inspections our site was docked points due to the missing pages of important documents.
I wish I could honestly say that as soon as I realized this, I immediately stopped all further deviant behavior…
Alas…
Other than that I was a good soldier.
Currently the poetry editor at Catholiclane.com
For more poems of mine, go to: http://catholiclane.com/author/zellie-m-quinn/
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I had a couple of ‘lone seed…lost behind’ in the way of a pumpkin and a tomato plant this summer! Great poem Zellie!
One neighbor shipped a stack of pumkins for halloween, then when it snowed early, never had a chance to get rid of all of them so She and her hubby put them beside the house and forgot them, so had quite a pumkin patch beside her house the next summer-!