Haiku Poetry Prompt Writing Challenge Words: Lightning & Rain.

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Memories of An Old Tree (in 7 haiku)

Are you hollow now,

brittled by years, wondering  

why you must stand still?

—

Once, from my window,

you sparkled with the night sky.

Summer hurricane.

 —

The roof  was debris.

I watched it sail far away,

but so close to you.

—

We were mesmerized,

the stupidity of youth,

you were asunder.

—

In autumn I read

The Giving Tree–did you know

that I would miss you?

—

If I live to see

my ninetieth winter, tears

for you will still shed.

—

Spring is a warning

that we live and grow, facing

our bitter end.

-db