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Tree Poems | Examples of Tree Poetry

Premium Member Old Mister
silent oak tree sentinel guards my yard I call him Old Mister he drops acorns that try to grow new oak trees they land in a cinder piles, planting themselves In a few weeks tiny oak leaves form. If you gently pull them out of the cinders You will see a tiny oak tree growing out of an acorn. I pulled twenty...

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Categories: tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member honeysuckle tree
honeysuckle tree blossoms rain on summers day yellow parachutes she grows renegade her offshoots grow wild too commandeer the yard...

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Categories: tree,
Form: Senryu



Blue Willow Tree
She stood beneath the spreading tree and looked out far, across the sea with wide eyes wonder , to the sky, and softly wished to ask him why her love that had to go so far, across the waters, to a War but just returned , was dancing rain, that seemed to cry and say his name and look, a...

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Categories: tree, imagination, poetry, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Matsuo Basho: English translations 3
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about birds, flowers, candles, life, death. Naptime! But my drowsiness is nixed by busybody warblers. —Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch Carolers: the sparrows smile at their warbling. —Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch Giving thanks to the flowers for brightening my visit: farewell. —Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch Melancholy nub! The bamboo bud’s sad end. —Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael...

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Categories: tree, bird, culture, death, flower,
Form: Haiku
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Summer 2
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about summer, trees, firefly, fireflies, cuckoos, rice fields, rice paddies, bush-clover, Iris, Irises, temple, temples, Japanese culture, light, daylight, lit, boat, boats. Fireflies turn our trees into well-lit lodges. —Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch A noontime firefly, dim by daylight, hides behind a pillar. —Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Firefly watching, the tipsy boatman rocks the...

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Categories: tree, boat, culture, light, summer,
Form: Haiku



Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Spring 2
Matsuo Basho English Translations of haiku about spring, birds, bats, butterflies, flowers, sun, cherry. Seeing them naked almost makes me caress the wanton flowers. —Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch As temple bells fade flowers strike their fragrance into the silence. —Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch The bat also emerges into the birds’ world of flowers. —Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch When planting, please...

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Categories: tree, bird, butterfly, culture, earth,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Murder Beneath a Singing Tree
Bejeweled flyers chatting away merrily singing harmony to a silent sentient God Maybe they're trapped in indigo agony shaking our toxins from their beaks. What do they think of the awkward rock beneath them... Maybe they're conspiring to murder me. ...

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Categories: tree, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member my overgrown lilac tree
my lilac tree did not know she was a bush within ten years she flourished with a swoosh she outgrew every tree except the oak giant lilac tree is a hundred foot tall, shade very reliant....

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Categories: tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Giving Tree
Categories: tree,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Nature Speaks To My Soul
I stand alone in natures beauty, in the woods by a trickling stream. I feel the presence of my destiny, as a repetitive eternal dream. I hear the gurgling of water, as it follows its chosen way, No worries of tomorrow, as it just flows towards the bay. My mind says, relax you’re never alone, the beauty of nature is all around. A fallen...

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Categories: tree, introspection, nature, silence, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member jealous of a tree
the moon sparkled with a magic the world had not seen spring blossoms on trees were dazzling in her happy sheen tiny purple violets on the ground felt dowdy in compare a mystical sense of entitlement was in the evening air grasses reassured the tiny flowers they were beautiful too especially, they told them, when you open up with dew lavender...

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Categories: tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soldier of the Forest
the evergreen casts a full shadow, a grayscale vision she has served as camouflage for raccoons, mice, and snakes a soldier of the forest, standing against the north winds showing the woods what a true patriot looks like animals depend on her confidentiality, security and discretion....

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Categories: tree,
Form: Free verse
Should I Associate Hope To Only Dead Tree
Forever is a giant ground, Where buried roots live in hope. Though, dead in earth and weak beyond The realistic of growth scientifically. Unless been uprooted and cast in fire, It remains a new seed to sprout new desires. Studies often wonder how each get to cope-- The threat of call, hope yield basically. But men are death bound; For...

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Categories: tree, anxiety, art, crazy, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forests of Green Coniferous Trees
Forests of Green Coniferous Trees Forests of evergreen conifers (Fir, spruce, cedar, pine, and hemlock trees) Keep their colour throughout the seasons And don’t shed foliage in autumn. Rooted in soil and basking in sunlight, They grow on hillsides and in valleys, Encircling rock outcrops, swamps, and leas, And near rivers and lakes, and on islands. These hearty trees endure nature’s throes Of cold, harsh,...

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Categories: nature, tree,
Form: Verse
El Arbol del Tule
El Árbol del Tule, what a legendary tree! More than two thousands years is her age, history! The ancient Giant tree El Árbol del Tule so cool!...

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Categories: tree,
Form: Sijo

Specific Types of Tree Poems

Read wonderful tree poetry on the following sub-topics: beautiful, christmas, family, haiku, house, life, memorial, oak, personification, planting, rhyme, roots, shape, willow, and more.

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