Thursday July 20 2017  NOW YOU SEE IT…NOW YOU DON’T

 

A GREAT DEBACLE

Kathleen Martens

July 20, 2017

http://www.visionsofpoetry.com

 

 

A late hello

To say goodnight,

A bit more refreshing

Than yesterday’s plight.

 

Late to bed

And early to rise

And with the morning

Came a great surprise.

 

Our shag bark hickory

About 80 feet in height

Met its doom

In the night.

 

And in its path

Nothing fared,

Our wrought iron fence

Was not even spared.

 

The tree came crashing

Breaking all it touched,

As if in panic,

Down it rushed!

 

Though suspended

From terrace to trunk

A great debacle

That has not shrunk.

 

As it fell

It met resistance

While landing on

Our terrace extension.

 

But no one injured

And we didn’t even know

Until the morning

When we move slow.

 

Such a beautiful,

Wonderful tree;

I’m glad its demise

I did not see!

 

Thank You God that no one was injured when our tree fell. 

Thank Your God for protecting our home yesterday evening and last night.

Thank You God that I only have a poem to write and nothing more.

 

GOOD NIGHT AND GOD BLESS YOU