Plum Tree
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Plum Tree

Plum Tree is another nature poem from Bet Briggs. It celebrates life after death.

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Plum Tree — Bet Briggs Copyright
	The old plum tree is dead: severed from the earth so long its home to give place to the new. Only the stump, like a brown ancient rock reposes in kindly ground and defies axeman’s stroke. Let it stay. The gentler blade of time will whittle the wood lovingly to its core. Earth’s quiet creatures, faithful in ritual will bear it deep in the soil for resurrection. Its ruin will be nurture for another, its dust a home, fruit of the earth tree out of tree will grow.
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