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Ash Tree Poems - Poems about Ash Tree


Ash Tree Gospel
They buried my name in a saltless grave and left my voice in the bark of an ash tree. I was born breathless, wrapped in the skin of something ancient not animal, not spirit, but a memory unfinished. I remember flames that spoke in riddles, cracking open the eyes of the sky. Clouds wept honey and blood, and the stars refused to answer why they...

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Categories: ash tree, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Ash Tree:
Roots that hold this tree Let them dig deeper and true But remain hidden...

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Categories: ash tree, tree,
Form: Haiku



Weeping Ash Tree
Mourn for me tonight, Weeping Ash. Break my heart and all my hopes crash. Let your gnarled knuckles crack and creak; Let your contorted mouth still shriek Silently. Twisted in agonised peace And calm, you could my soul release. May the inveigling light shudder In the gloom and silent thunder. Cradle my weight in your warm heart. Seduction or eternal hurt?...

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Categories: ash tree, depression,
Form: Verse
Ash Tree
The endangered Ash Tree what can we say we have somehow numbered your days bright in the spring with hint of all new in summer you shade us and make us feel new So wonderful in the fall of burgundy glow so majestic in winter dark bark against snow to gaze at your splendor to wish you to stay look intently for it has seen it's...

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Categories: ash tree, autumn, nature,
Form: Ode
From the Ash Tree
Falling leaves of the ash tree Burned to the ground Behind you see The embers found Wind flows without directional need Branches fallen lain to fritter Spreading remains of the withered seed Yore the scorch the earth un wither Sprouting stem from far you flew Careen a trail of destination Giving birth to hope anew Tree’s first breath of transpiration Coppice recapitulate Life perpetuate...

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Categories: ash tree, natural disasters, nature, recovery
Form: Sonnet




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