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[ CC ] Night Of A Thousand Branches

   
Trees by design bark  
and pine for destinations  
---ends of journeys these    
earthen beings only embark    
upon in imaginations  
   
In oft-repeated dreams pleasant  
branching into Future and Past  
leaving throughout their Presentness    
my lofty friends at last  
are nothing less than free  
to be themselves with me
   
but not so much her;  
   
during bitter, clattering, breezy nights    
as teeth chattering wind blows  
coldly inwards from west to east  
my darling gets the mighty frights  
finds any old, gnarling tree a beast---  
an impossible thing to behold  
rasping, snarling, reaching  
grasping, clawing, breaching  
her latched bedroom windows;  
   
in other words  
scarier  
than all get-out  
 
 
Written by JohnnyBlaze
Published | Edited 27th Oct 2021
Author's Note
inspired by Robert Frost's "The Oft-Repeated Dream"
for The Road Less Traveled comp @
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10474/
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