Best Almond Tree Poems

It stood magnificently in front of our Churchyard,
Like the sacred fig tree before any temple-yard;
My going to church, as a boy, had no other reason,
Than picking all bird-dropped fruits, as a mission;
Collecting as many as possible hastily,
Pushing them into my knickers-pocket quietly;
Thinking of them all...

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An Almond Tree 

Elvira was walking her dog, a poodle, in a landscape 
of rounded hills, when she fell into a cylindrical
borehole; her dog waited for her to come up again,
she didn´t, and since it was getting dark it ran home.
 In the night an...

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Almond Tree and Prisoners
As a child I lived near a farm a farm that was
next door to a prison camp. Russian prisoners
marched up and down trying to keep warm 
it was January with much frost, year of 1945 
I thought of this today on my...

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rainy day sunshine
pretty almond tree spirit
dancing with our ancestors
frolicking even
with whispery giggling
they are lightening us up...

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Whenever the time of the flowering almond trees arrived,
we climbed the tree and played among its branches
and so, among flowers and games,
we contemplated life from our childhood....

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Ok. Day 

On a day like this 
With sunlight 
Clear sky and mild breeze 

And I know 
There will not be a day 
Just like this again

There will be other days
Just as good now as the almond 
Tree bears fruit....

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You tasted spring’s young almonds green;
sweeter than vestal nectarine
then all your innocence is lost;
forever to the wind is tossed.

The seed you planted long ago;
time will see it ripen and grow;
as the summer sun slow unfolds,
the carapace no longer holds

Fall harvest fruit is eager reaped;
upon a...

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