The Old Banyan Tree

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a></figcaption></figure>What has mankind done to this once beautiful world I have seen it change from paradise to sheer hell with my old sad wrinkly eyesI haven’t been writing as much poetry as I’d like, and yet today I thought I’ll do a Tanka — the powerful little style I got introduced to on here.I sometimes imagine what it would be like to be a banyan tree — with a lifespan of over 300

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years, and sometimes as high as a thousand years. How does it feel to see generations walk past, and the world change so much, and yet not be able to do anything about it — and just silently watch? We can only wonder…Tagging some of the best poetry wizards that I know on here — <a href="undefined">Julene Cole</a> <a href="undefined">Tree Langdon, CPA, CGA</a> <a href="undefined">Geetika Sethi</a></article></body>

A Tanka Poem about the silent watch of hundreds of years…

What has mankind done to this once beautiful world I have seen it change from paradise to sheer hell with my old sad wrinkly eyes

I haven’t been writing as much poetry as I’d like, and yet today I thought I’ll do a Tanka — the powerful little style I got introduced to on here.

I sometimes imagine what it would be like to be a banyan tree — with a lifespan of over 300 years, and sometimes as high as a thousand years. How does it feel to see generations walk past, and the world change so much, and yet not be able to do anything about it — and just silently watch? We can only wonder…