Best Arboretum Poems

The arboretum looks as it did then
With silver maples dancing in the breeze
Wildflowers bloom within the narrow glen
Remember how we kissed beneath the trees?

One special...

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A COPPER PENNY


The significance of a copper penny…
It’s part of our heritage
Being raised in the copper mining area
Of Ruth, Nevada
Fathers and brothers worked for
The Kennecott...

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Did you see the rose bushes in the arboretum this afternoon? Did you see all the powerful colors lighting up the garden? How about the...

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City of Trees 

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Johannesburg, home to ten million trees,
It’s the world’s largest urban arboretum.
Streets in summer lie beneath green canopies.

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From sidewalks their branches meet with...

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Like an arboretum, my smile and laughter fills empty space,
tall stand the trees all huddled together like girlfriends on a chilly night ready to share...

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FOG LIKE PHANTOM STREAMS
misty beauty, white ravines
make mornings meaningful

Acacia arboretum hold fast
At the breaking before breakfast
The new day, old friends, egrets...

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gardens are where we are:

  from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
  from mountain to coast, town to country
  from wetlands to...

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The other day I heard two lovers having a quarrel. They were sitting on a park bench at the arboretum near my home. I though...

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Go to the wall and read the names
Go to the wall and stand
Go to the wall and shed a tear
For those that saved our land.

Stand...

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Absent oxygen, 
survival hinged on fire.
Launched anchor,
sunken ship of desire. 
Mind's weapon 
waging war 
with free soul.
Blind volunteer
leads on,
midnight patrol. 
Too little, 
too late, 
too...

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Land of Graves

A land of graves makes for quiet neighbors.  
He who blessed or cursed extant thereupon remains 
Shall suffer little disturbance at the...

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BEYOND DESCRIPTION

If you took all the words in all the dictionaries.
The words of all the books in all the world’s libraries,
You’d still not have enough...

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Efflorescence in a period of time
As Chicory plant spreads
While arboretum is filled with newly watered seeds
The wild-flower in all its glory blooms

The gentility of the...

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I bowed before the Lord.
Like a little brook, His Spirit flowed.
As I went lower, the Bestower
Poured more into my soul.
A whole refreshing, a mighty blessing
Like...

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verdant shades
dappled shadows… woodland ways
dancing flower flies
~
woodland... a garden
an arboretum… parkland
fill one's mind with green
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artists… bemused...
which green to fill their brush…
gardens inspire...

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