'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all (trite recompense truism)
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Land with a home, with water year round
On first visit greeted by turkey abound
We'll take it the stake an owner contract
20 percent down eight years payment
In dry season purchased the creek ambled o'er stone
Alder ash snags provided our thrones
Tiny fish in pools ate algae the heron ate them
The frogs at night chorus deafening din
Of near 80 Acres not much fence hemmed
A south facing slope our swale portend
How thousands year trickle become full blown torrent
In seasonal escape the waters land rend
Along canyon basin ten acres spread level
Pine ponderosa and oak the basalt court gavel
Flood as per wont resolution inure
The water table thru august endure
Deer trails of habit of numberless trod
Fractal rock no issue to four hoofed clod
Up to groves unmilled unburnt the oak as hearty as time
To clasp it round join children nine
Late spring rain ceases but springs bring life strange
Midway off the hillside above 1800 ft range
The spring mouth green cloistered it's descent likewise fresh grasses
Near high desert past the cascades moisture passes
All animal seek sip to skip the climb down
Creekside means predators that's nature found
Loggers or cougar or bobcat or hawk
The food pyramid lopsided gawks
There by the spring now meadow unveil
An oak 400 year on it's side prevail
Ground offer glimpses arrowhead shard
Home once and always but luck tough hard
Portland vis a vis
Swale creek, Wa
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