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# Our Old Oak
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/our-old-oak/
- Published: 2022-06-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Those were the days! When young and strong, he lorded over the new fence. When it meant something to belong and future was the only tense. And now? He's bending like a willow, and counts the days. Wet grass, his pillow.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Those were the days! When young and strong,  
he lorded over the new fence.  
When it meant something to belong  
and future was the only tense.  
And now? He's bending like a willow,  
and counts the days. Wet grass, his pillow.