Ravaged Linden Tree

Photo by Judy Spoelhof

Ravaged Linden Tree

Barren limbs angled sharply like many broken arms

askew and dangling against a sombre sky with  

just a few large leaves still hanging on. A

lightening silhouette of who you were

yet softened by the echo of a

Rainbow

Faint rainbow of the Linden Tree

ravaged by the storm, left

bowed and broken

raw limbs awry

May we learn to see your promise

begin to understand its hope

know to bud anew and be

Reborn

JoMae

10/22/18

An effort to capture a photo verbally
- inspired while reading

Tell it Slant by Brenda Miller

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3/27/19
First Leaf on the Linden Tree

Photo by Judy Spoelhof