Josefine8240's Poems

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Death of a Pear Tree

The pear tree rotted for many years,
its trunk covered in soft spots of sickness before at last bending in a final exhale.
I cut it at the blackened roots before it fell,
while it still had green in its leaves.

The first bright green pear it...

by Josefine Berring

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added 8 months ago
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When May Comes

When May comes,
every year,
and the smell of lilac hangs heavy,
I am plucked from my body,
like a berry from a bush,
and planted on my mother's lawn.

Every May,
it never fails,
I am brought back
by memory or a trickster god
to the...

by Josefine Berring

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added 9 months ago
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