Best Banana Tree Poems
I Am the Banana Tree...I AM THE BANANA TREE
I am the banana tree
That dwells where rivers meet ;
I am the banana tree
That dwells where sun lives;
On fertility I tower ; believe,
Your party hour has come
You shall now ea......
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Categories:
banana tree, africa, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Dear Miss Monkey Manners Vii...Dear Miss Monkey Manners: I’m a Spider Monkey in need of your help,
Recently someone yanked my tail and I cried out with a yelp.
It may seem like a little thing to cry when someone pulls your tail,......
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Categories:
banana tree, funny, me,
Form:
Light Verse
In Poetry Soup She Lives...IN POETRY SOUP SHE LIVES
Death brings down a banana tree
And goes about with joy in his heart ;
Rejoice not feller of tree
The one you cut has sprouted again :
She sits by the river si......
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Categories:
banana tree, death of a friend,
Form:
Elegy
Hey Bwana - Exclamation Point...Banana tree here! Bwana quick sit with me
Come sit with me friend for a spell
These damn tsetse flies are all out for our blood
By now we all know them quite well!
In African village we no got ......
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Categories:
banana tree, humor, racism,
Form:
Rhyme
For Stephen Keshi...How come Stephen,
When do you forget defence?
Why don't you hack death with your golden boot?
Do not disappoint me,
Do not let me down Keshi,
Your crown is medal-made;
Roam not with lilliput......
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Categories:
banana tree, death,
Form:
Elegy
To What End...I waited
Under the outspread foliage
Of the banana tree,
With ripening fruits dangling precariously,
Wondering,
With eyes set on the earth,
Wishing I understood
This everlasting madness.
......
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Categories:
banana tree, bereavement, birth, confusion, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Lets Re-Love...All poems were for you
I was waiting for true life
Pen recalled the last dew
Love was rainbow type
Lips composed the truths
You hugged all boo strife
Sparrow left all loathes
November rain was......
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Categories:
banana tree, love,
Form:
Terza Rima
A Letter To My Farm...Dear farm,
I write to tell of what life has become of me
Life in the city and this white collar job-
Has blotted from my memory
How to plant the seeds in your bed
And clear the beard of weeds th......
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Categories:
banana tree, parody, me, self, city,
Form:
Personification
I Become Lost In These Lazy Days...i become lost in these lazy days
the ones i have learned to allow
sitting here on the balcony
watching the frigates glide to Bolero
below a content ocean, empty beach
my attention was broken by ......
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Categories:
banana tree, celebration, change, childhood, children,
Form:
Free verse
If I Could Splice Two Trees Together...If I were a horticulturalist like Sam Van Aken
I would splice a banana tree with a strawberry tree.
Strawberries are not tree-grown?
Okay.
Then I would splice a banana tree with a peanut tree.
......
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Categories:
banana tree, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Light Verse
Sol...SOL’S A SHINING
Sol’s a shining,
And dog is laying around,
For on this day
Winter has made her home in residence,
And bought another dimension to feeling
Adding to a wonderful time of year,
......
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Categories:
banana tree, appreciation, celebration, creation, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Kin...Kin
by Michael R. Burch
O pale, austere moon,
haughty beauty ...
what do we know of love,
or duty?
Daredevil
by Michael R. Burch
There are days that I believe
(and nights that I......
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Categories:
banana tree, absence, beauty, death, love,
Form:
Verse
Crisis...CRISIS
BY DR RANJIT DUTTA
A blanket of darkness everywhere!
Civilization, society, love ,
Faith and religion
All are on the threshold of crisis......
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Categories:
banana tree, 7th grade,
Form:
Verse
Banana Love...From the tree we both grow,
Pointed in different directions.
Banana tree, supple in the wind.
Perfect brown spots, silk yellow skin.
From the tree we both grow,
Inching closer, my lips intwined
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Categories:
banana tree, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
banana tree, horror, moon, night, scary,
Form:
Rhyme