He wore bare feet, a pot for a hat,
our Johnny Appleseed, one cool cat.
Categories:
appleseed, fruit, memorial,
Form: Couplet
You must be someone new
Another Johnny Appleseed
Leaving flowers wherever you walk
So, please travel the world
Bring life and beauty wherever you go
And we will remember your name
Johnny Flowerseed
© Poem – VI/XI/MMXXIV
LRET
Categories:
appleseed, flower,
Form: Free verse
Jackie sat on a hill outside and began to read.
He was chastised by one Johnny Appleseed.
Why do you waste your time? Come help me get honey.
No thanks said Jackie, I am reading to this bunny.
The bunny was touched, and brought his family around.
The hopped and played, and sat next to Jackie on the ground.
I love his reading so much, this can never get old!
But then they were joined by a crazy old toad.
The toad hopped off to get his family too.
There were soon toads all over, maybe twenty-two.
What is happening? Asked Jackie. What is their goal?
I do not understand said a bunny, but they need birth control.
Categories:
appleseed, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Let’s rhyme today Trixie said.
She thumped me soundly on my head.
Tweet Tweet Tweet Twee.
Bleat Bleat Bleat Blee.
Let’s dance around the poetry tree!
I was not in a mood to think or see
What my muse clearly had in mind for me.
I am dour and damp and dark and dreary.
She was putting my mood into a fury.
Let’s not today; it would be a pain.
My day is full of gloom and rain.
Trixie would not hear of this for sure.
She jumped on my shoulders and gave a purr.
Come on! She urged. Fun is what you need.
She danced the dance of Johnny Appleseed.
Rhyming. Ugh! How boring I said.
I was lying like concrete, about half dead.
I am not in the mood. Leave me alone.
But of course, she wrote up this damned poem.
Categories:
appleseed, muse, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Johnny's just an American guy
a young American guy who wonders why
People sometimes look at him funny
though it's nothing to do with love or money
Johnny, you see, is a medical rarity
though he seeks neither favors nor charity
It seems that his skin color's subject to change
as Earth's two orbs through the sky roam and range
At three stars, he starts turning dark as ocean's deep
but as the sun rises, Johnny's skin wakes up from its sleep
First it turns tan, then olive, then beige, almost white
He can even get sunburned in the bright noonday light.
In the park after dark, Johnny's an African American
But on the road at mid-day, he's a smiling Irishman
Folks who spot Johnny at each of these places
wonder if it's Johnny or they who mixed up his race
Johnny himself can't understand what's so confusing
he enjoys the changes, even finds them amusing
Why can't folks see that I'm like autumn's leaves on fruit trees
~ ponders the American guy named 'J. Appleseed'
Categories:
appleseed, america, color, confusion, race,
Form: Narrative
:::::::::::::::::::::::: APPLE
Never true from seed
wild card with every new sprout
the fruits of the earth
GINSU - KNIFE EASTPORT , MAINE USA
Johnny Appleseed was a great story of the early days of this country as
it spread from East to West.
Im not sure if he really scattered apple seeds or not.
Try it for yourself.
Save the seeds from any apple, plant them and see whats sprouts and
grows.
With that in mind Im going out to "prune" my apple trees here in Maine
while its still cold and the sap and bugs aren't running yet.
Categories:
appleseed, adventure, allegory, america, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Johnny was a lover of God's country
who roamed cherished land because he was free.
A skilled outdoorsman with backcountry charms,
he donned a burlap sack with holes for arms.
To wear rugged shoes was quite a blessing,
for barefoot he'd trek, soles without dressing.
He donned a useful pot upon his head,
books have depicted, historians said.
He was kind and gentle to all God's life,
though he was childless and had no wife.
He escaped wild beasts, slept under stars,
and had tales to tell along with scars.
As an optimist with fistfuls of seed,
he ceased moments to meet a future need.
Crisp and delicious, he loved apples' taste,
pocketing precious seed to sow in haste.
Imaging orchards graceful and wild,
he planted new life with faith of a child.
With settlers he'd barter for basic needs
blessing them with the product of his seeds.
From Pennsylvania to Iowa's ground,
Johnny's living legacy can be found.
1/20/2021
Categories:
appleseed, adventure, dream, earth, fruit,
Form: Rhyme
basket of green and red apples
fullscreen fruitful seeds planted
rotten apples in my eyes
have no demise
I find useful rotten fruit laying
in the middle of the group
for the abused and bruised make apple juice
I fuse, fry and make a pie
the beaten and battered were never shattered or tasteless
will always find a place for the thought to be wasted
why misplace a whole basket for just a 2 bad apples
must not be organic
maybe Monsanto GMO
now no apples in my reach
responsibilities hanging from the orchard waiting to ripe
red or green no matter
never make the same mistake twice.
genetically modifying Johnny Appleseed to tell a lie
I guess that's what happens when artificial changes natural
roll the dice pay the price when you mess with the seed of life
ALL GONE no more seeds, WE DIE
Categories:
appleseed, color, columbus day, earth,
Form: Light Verse
I'll bring the avocados
And feed you as you come for safaris
Like my mother did, further beyond the Kalahari
And we can share the dips, the spreads and the shakes with all kind of stories
In the sunny and in the starry
Or you can plant one seed at a time like Johnny Appleseed
Or bring flowers from continent to continent and let them breed
Export that rare plant so I can also see
With your love and my love, we can feed so many, just with our deeds
Come to my garden, plant something and let's watch it grow
Spread the seeds or put them in rows
It can be free style and freely can flow
No rules, no limits and it can even be slow
Just bring the sweet love mango in you and let it glow
Categories:
appleseed, humanity, , sweet love,
Form: Rhyme
Our old friend Johnny Appleseed
Was a bit of a kook all agreed
Always wore a tin pot on his head
Kept himself dry and also well fed
Johnny Appleseed was really John Chapman...he became the stuff of legends after his death.
He wandered the northeast planting appleseeds. The apples were used for apple cider or "spirits",
not for eating.
Categories:
appleseed, environment, history, humor,
Form: Clerihew
there's something now in America's room
to give us a sense of uncommon gloom
may be a smart guy, a financial advisor
with a hundred minus 99 an uncommon divisor
the room's haves, still have, the not, don't
99 of a hundred want redress, 1 other won't
is the Right right? does the Left remain?
has all of America gone a little insane?
do the Occupy folks occupy this room's hearts
do citizen's lives jerk on in fits-n-starts?
at their tea party did Alice and the Hatter
sip cool-aid or tea, or really know the matter
with all the other people, or too, themselves,
red queen, a rabbit, maybe a few dozen elves
is it right to just shout "off with their heads!"
shouldn't we consider a more humane way instead
acknowledge that we all have some common good
to better care for each other, at least we should
Johnny Appleseed knew well what the future held
so he planted for generations to come and dwell
under a tree of life, growing our tree of mankind
tying us to our brothers would knots that align
there's plenty of shade under one nation's tree
with our common good a precedent, a standard to be
© Goode Guy 2012-01-20
Categories:
appleseed, philosophy, political, tree, tree,
Form: Couplet
"Johnny Appleseed" is a children's song, sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic".
Oh, do you know the story of Old Johnny Appleseed?
He gave appleseeds to everyone that he thought was in need,
And the people planted them and watched the trees grow tall.
Thanks to Johnny we have juicy apples every fall!
Johnny Appleseed trivia: Johnny Appleseed was a missionary. Along with
appleseeds, he distributed publications for the Swedenborgian Church.
Bonus activity: Johnny Appleseed thought it was important to nourish the body-and
the spirit. Ask children to think of ways that one might feed the spirit.
Categories:
appleseed, children
Form: Rhyme
A is for the apple trees of Johnny Appleseed,
planting economic freedom
from sea to shining sea.
M is for mother, Madam Liberty,
honors regrowth, the melting pot of the free.
E is for emergence, of new thoughts, new lives, new mysteries.
R is for the richness of cultural diversity.
I is for a fresh idealism not false idolatry.
A is for admiration of America¢s bold beauty.
And all that spelled America
from sea to shining sea.
Categories:
appleseed, politicalsea, sea,
Form: Acrostic