Our Dogwood Tree

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We moved into our Bartlesville home in the 1984 summer,
We were welcomed by our neighbors as new comers,
The story today is about a dogwood tree out in our yard,
As we loved the spring blossoms outside looking so sharp.

 

 

 

 

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Our Dogwood Tree

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Our home from the outside looks different than most,
It’s mostly rock construction with cedar siding and posts,
Part is two story construction on the side to the west,
A single story with a finished basement makes up the rest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Out front was a dogwood tree that bloomed each spring,
With large pink and white blossoms making your heart sing.
When we first moved in, the tree was quite small,
But it continued to grow over the years pleasing us all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In the spring, we often took pictures of people there,
Near that dogwood tree spreading beauty everywhere.
About 1989, MaMo and PoPo Barringer came here,
And we captured their memory under the tree so fair.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About 1994, we got Tamara standing under there too,
The branches were larger, but the blossoms were few.
Our dogwood was losing its luster compared to the past,
We wondered then why our tree was losing its pizzazz.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About 1997, We got Kristi and her boyfriend Carl,
Under that dogwood tree that was starting to gnarl.
The blossoms had diminished even more than before,
Even though they were still beautiful outside our front door.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About five years later, that tree just up and died,
I found bores had eaten the guts out of our tree and cried,
So I had the tree cut down right flush with the ground.
The next year a sprig came up where the tree was found.

 

 

 

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Just last year we had the first blossoms on the tree so thin,
We were happy to see the beauty return once again.
Our baby had died and come back to life once more,
Still standing tall right outside our own front door.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This spring our dogwood tree has grown even taller,
With more blossoms of that pretty pink and white color,
I think our new generation dogwood tree will soon be,
Generating more beautiful blossoms than the original tree.

It’s recovering nicely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We used to have Azaleas out in the front yard too,
We took a lot of pictures in the spring as we flew,
They were a beautiful pink color looking so very fine,
And it really smelled good out there all of the time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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One year we had a terrible ice storm that broke them down,
And that storm killed them dead making us frown.
But we still have one red bud tree that did survive,
Out of the two we had before that ice storm did arrive.

What a nasty ice storm.

 

 

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Nothing better than a kiss under the Red Bud Trees.

 

 

 

 

 

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By Bill

 

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Thanks for reading  Our Dogwood Tree,

Bill