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28-MAR-2009 © MiekeWAMinkjan

Tree of life

South Australia

In the dry red countryside stands a lonesome tree
It towers high above the landscape
Proud she is, like her crown,
Which fans out like fingers
Galah’s and Cockatoos shriek loudly
and in the shadows at her feet
lounge away some Kangaroos

She blossoms and grows,
She leans with the wind
Sometimes it loses leaves
Its flowers make seeds.
If a storm knocked her down
Her memory will always remain

Because there will be new trees growing,
But never as beautiful and
gifted as she was…

MiekeMinkjan April 2011

Canon EOS 40D
1/250s f/9.0 at 85.0mm iso100 full exif

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Guest 30-Jul-2011 23:20
Life seems to have it hard there.
Yvonne29-Jul-2011 11:44
I always love lone trees, and this is really lovely, as is your delightful poem Mieke! v
This has a background of the Flinders Ranges behind I see...and the unmistakable colours of the outback.