Stuck in a garden with no way to bargain

This is a post of mine that was featured in Footprint Magazine in 2011.

Photo courtesy Missouri Botanic Garden.

There once was a little red tree

Who liked to think she was free

But she was stuck in a garden

With no way to bargain

So the world she couldn’t travel and see

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More from the Leaf Lyrics collection:

“Leaves flutter like flames” – a haiku by Meghan Eldridge

“All things elm” – a playlist by Kelly Gehringer

“If trees had names” – an illustration by Kat Seal

“Not all leaves are created equal” – a Footprint photo gallery