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JOSIE'S POEMS
Longer Narrative Poems
By Josie Whitehead
PRIDE COMES BEFORE A FALL
(Based on an Aesop's Fable)
By Josie Whitehead
A huge oak tree, robust and proud,
Said to some swaying reeds:
'My strength will see me through all storms.
I have no other needs.'
The reeds were dancing in the wind,
With roots deep in the stream:
'You may be large and powerful,
But we're stronger than we seem.'
That night a storm attacked them all.
And how that wind did scream!
It uprooted that almighty tree
Which fell down in the stream.
The reeds said quietly to the tree:
'There’s something we all knew.
There may be strength in size and weight,
But in grace and litheness too.'
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* litheness - the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple. lissomeness, suppleness.
This poem is packed with personification, but what is this? Josie