FEB 10, a brief saga (trees): sabal palmetto trees

Authors' Note: Sabal palmettos, native trees growing along the southeastern and Gulf coastlines of the United States, are also distributed and planted in the temperate portions of the country further west.

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Uprooted Verse: 'Poems about Trees' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". 

For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three or more stanzas in limerick form. Your blogging team has been presenting these concoctions at the rate of one per month, mixed in with the shorter poems, wordplay and other general offerings.  

  

To access the next 'brief saga' on this blog (March 2020), proceed to Walrus and Carpenter (Carolina lowcountry version)'.

To access the most recent previous 'brief saga' (Jan/Feb 2020), back up to 'Chemainus, British Columbia '.  

To access all of our 'brief sagas' by the year of their creation, click on your selection below.

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