UnderThe PoemTree® WITH  Ron Purtlebaugh    About The Author    Grab a cushion, cup of tea, a warm wool blanket, if you need, if  poetry is what you seek, come and spend some time with me, some buttons here with links to choose, my words of love and what i think, 'bout a thousand different things, things i think the world needs, kids that read, fertile seeds, a million zillion poemtrees, but most of all, what words are for, to give a gift, the world i see, and here it is for you from me.   "I once knew a man's brain so small, couldn't think a'nothin' at all, not the same as you an' me, doesn't dig poetry, why, he's so unhip, when you say Dylan, he thinks you're talkin' 'bout Dylan Thomas, who ever he was, the man ain't got no culture."                                         Paul Simon   POEM TREE LEAVES  NATURE  LOVE & BEAUTY  MEANDERINGS MEANDERINGS TOOWANDERING WORDS GOD BLESS AMERICA  ST.AUGUSTINENONSENSE & HUMORCOMMENTS & LINKSBRANCHES AND TWIGS INDEXTABLE OF CONTENTS   ron@underthepoemtree.com    Author's Note: New selections are added daily at the end of each section and are easily accessed on the contents page.  Thank you for reading me.    These are my poems, you can use or reprint them only with easily granted permission ©copyright 2001 by Ron Purtlebaugh all rights reserved UNDER THE POEM TREE©  IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF I02NODESIGNS