The Maple Tree at Dawn
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The maple tree at dawn coated in freezing rain shone
like a million starry eyes once again.
It was too dark to get a clear photograph.
She would wait until after the sun rose to try again.
Praying the temperatures would 'hold steady',
she danced and hummed the Aretha Franklin song.
Now, the sun is up on a purely gray day.
The shiny glints of diamond wonder are gone.
Now just a short term memory, left in neural bundles--
to be ignited again by looking at trees, dancing in a freezing winter wind.
The maple tree at dawn coated in freezing rain shone
like a million starry eyes once again.
It was too dark to get a clear photograph.
She would wait until after the sun rose to try again.
Praying the temperatures would 'hold steady',
she danced and hummed the Aretha Franklin song.
Now, the sun is up on a purely gray day.
The shiny glints of diamond wonder are gone.
Now just a short term memory, left in neural bundles--
to be ignited again by looking at trees, dancing in a freezing winter wind.
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