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Wondrous Poems

Wondrous poems are melodies
Emancipated from live trees
Freed at last from trunk and limb
Freed at last to sing their hymn
Transplanted in the hearts they've torn
Transplanted by the poets they've borne
Echo in our hearts as rhyme
Echo through the sands of time
Written down with pen and ink
That all,
            That would,
                             Might stop and think
How wondrous a poem can be
That's written deep within a tree

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Diane Christian

Date: 2/25/2025 1:13:00 AM

well done on your featured poem. thanks for sharing.

Sue Lowe

Date: 7/11/2024 10:09:00 AM

Jeanette Swan

Date: 3/2/2024 3:58:00 AM

yes - trees are living poems (along with children and birds). Lovely poem. J :)

Yolanda Nicholsen

Date: 3/1/2024 1:32:00 AM

Awesome write enjoyed reading your work.

Mahtab Bangalee

Date: 10/30/2023 9:55:00 PM

WONDROUS POEM- THAT'S THE DEEP BREATH OF A POETIC PEN!

Sarah Ann Jullion

Date: 10/30/2023 8:56:00 AM

I like your poem Jon! Especially the last line that ties your theme together and takes it, for me at least, to a deeper level. Very well penned!

Frances Schiavina

Date: 10/30/2023 8:10:00 AM

Congratulations Jon on your poem on what poetry should be, featured on Poetry Soup home page, poem that lives on and on...

Beata Agustin

Date: 8/4/2023 5:13:00 AM

Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Meanwhile, I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.

Mahtab Bangalee

Date: 1/16/2023 8:39:00 PM

yes, wondrous poem written deep with a tree root~ great and fantastically penned; superb to read the poem

Anna M Shepard

Date: 4/5/2022 3:38:00 PM

Oh how wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Thank you so very much for sharing this piece. Have a most blessed day.

Virginia Gelok

Date: 4/19/2021 1:04:00 PM

Too bad it takes a tree to make a pencil. A pencil for me to scratch out a poem. I am thankful though, I don't have to sit continuously in front of my computer. I really enjoyed this poem of yours...thankyou.

Gloria Shell Mitchell

Date: 1/25/2021 5:17:00 PM

Your poem reminded me of the famous “Trees.” It’s simplistic and profound.

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 1/31/2015 4:30:00 AM

Jon , Congratulations on having your poem featured on the soups home page. ~Always & Forever~ LINDA

Ana Espinola Collins

Date: 1/27/2015 10:28:00 AM

Absolutely beautiful Jon...A perfect write deserves a perfect score (A7) :) Ana

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 9/7/2013 11:57:00 PM

I am back here trying to figure out where I left off as I go backwards thru your poetry.Gotta find one quick. My goal is to get off here by midnight.haha

Jon A Cavanaugh
Date: 9/9/2013 8:54:00 AM

It's hard sometimes I wish there was a way on the soup to mark the poems one has read.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 9/4/2013 3:14:00 PM

aha, and on the same theme of tree but talking about poems, so not a parody, just a beautiful metaphor for poetry. I love this too.

Jon A Cavanaugh
Date: 9/4/2013 10:34:00 PM

Yes, this is one of my non-parody poems. I did do a parody of this Titled "Pathetic poems". Some poems cry out to be parodied. This is one of them. Thank you so much for enjoying my poems.

Terry O'Leary

Date: 10/5/2012 4:47:00 PM

A splendid little ditty, Jon!!! Terry