Old branches long gone:
broken by wind; cut by saw.
New branches coming.
~ ~ ~ ~
Refuse to die? No can do.
Like this tree, refuse to quit.
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Mellow Curmudgeon 
Beautiful poetry.
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I have a rosebush with the same energetic will to live…
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The city cut down the mature tree in my tree lawn several years ago. Now it is a half-sized version of its old self with three slender trunks growing from the old leveled trunk.
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