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Gifts of nature

By Mary E BradburyPublished 4 months ago 1 min read

joyful children leap

in golden piles raked knee-deep

flushed youth upon cheeks

Haiku

About the Creator

Mary E Bradbury

I wrote my first short story at 13 and it became like breathing for me. Pages and pages of a thousand streams of consciousness. Then life got in the way. My kids are now teens and I am compelled to share them. I have to breathe again.

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