Arboretum Poems - Poems about Arboretum

...The arboretum is quiet today. It is early, yet too late to spot a somnambulant space alien emerging from the thorny bushes. Do you believe? I have seen the odd-looking sparrows, with their r......Read the rest...

...I was sent to the Sahara to find the best cactus All I had to do was mark it Someone else would remove it Bringing it to the sound stage Or the arboretum or wherever it was needed......Read the rest...

...("Zero Point of Creation", 2018, original encaustic) In Praise of Mindlessness I’ve sought and found mindlessness in a variety of ways From dancing to climbing, meditating and painting,......Read the rest...

...When the last wild tree has fallen, Concrete covered last bare earth, When we've finally completed Rape of the Mother Earth, When the last bird has flown freely, The last wild animal safely cage......Read the rest...

...I bowed before the Lord. Like a little brook, His Spirit flowed. As I went lower, the Bestower Poured more into my soul. A whole refreshing, a mighty blessing Like a fragrant arboretum flowed. ......Read the rest...

...FOG LIKE PHANTOM STREAMS misty beauty, white ravines make mornings meaningful Acacia arboretum hold fast At the breaking before breakfast The new day, old friends, egrets......Read the rest...

...what are light green milkweed seeds called? hairy balls! There are three old women at the table. One spits out her dentures. We cannot stop laughing. I am not kidding, one tells us. I work at a......Read the rest...

...I think they tease their hair just to look a bit wilder a little more… “coyote ugly”. Perhaps a dash of “sports make-up” under the eyes to cut down the glare of the headlights. They roam the s......Read the rest...

...Within a lush verdant meadow, meanders a lazy river Where wildflowers bloom beneath the warm breath of the sun They sway upon a gypsy wind on this early morning in June Stems of purple h......Read the rest...

...Airy Wells and Emmett Street were working class kids, Just shy of a high school diploma. Airy’s mom had a habit of drinking too much. Emmett’s father was fighting lymphoma. Airy and Emmett had ......Read the rest...

...gardens are where we are: from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane" from mountain to coast, town to country from wetlands to desert oasis, under the sea to the edge of ice f......Read the rest...

...Memorial service ~10:00 A.M. October 21st, 2020... at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Unitarian Fellowship Boyce Brandon Harris cremains (approximately one fourth entire contents) offered, interred, an......Read the rest...

...Wings in puddles. There must have been a leak, and in the sky nothing fly’s but a crippled gale, it limps now, yet howls still from the far side of lost town. Wind-drones moan in bare trees ......Read the rest...

...The arboretum looks as it did then With silver maples dancing in the breeze Wildflowers bloom within the narrow glen Remember how we kissed beneath the trees? One special oak displays the h......Read the rest...

...Most elderly ladies shine under a straw sunhat. At the arboretum, sitting under an Ash tree (the same Ash that she had sex under, when she was old enough to know better). She leans back ......Read the rest...