Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 "Methuselah"

The most extraordinary life

I've had which I appreciate.

Avoiding most of human strife,

I'm left alone to contemplate

The forty plus centuries that

I've lived in California high,

In harsh mountainside habitat,

Ten thousand feet into the sky.

I don't grow too tall or too fast,

About an inch a century.

Nature's gifted me a long past.

I cherish now that's given me.

"Methuselah," human name mine

Given to this bristlecone pine.