Under the Olive Tree

By BBennettJ • May 23rd, 2007 • Category: Poems

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Under the Olive Tree

 

Under the olive tree

I sat, I watched, I listened

Through scorching heat of summer

And biting wintry winds

At harvest time the olives fell

Drumming out their plight

Abandoned, they were cast away

Forsaken, no one gathered them

A waste, while ambitious men nearby

Ran to catch the wind.

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