Best Birch Tree Poems

Outside my window
birch tree in the summer sun
snow in summertime...

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Birch Tree in Early Spring

Every breath of wind
stirs the branches,
each 
with a drop of
yesterday’s rain,
frozen in the moment,
sparkling now in the sun, 
like a thousand diamonds,
and I,
I am dazzled....

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bare birch tree swaying
blizzard blows away branches ~
chiding chickadee


5th December 2022

For Tania Kitchin's "Winter Nature Themed Haiku" contest...

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Cover me with the haze of
Fragmented years,
Let me sleep through this autumn
Where rains greedily devour 
Dying leaves,
And streams flow into the rotten silence. 
 
Clothe me with the moss
Which grew in the wrinkles of the forehead,
Make me senseless for the cruel fingers of the northerly...

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The birch tree bends 
over the abandoned playground 
its papery thin bark peeling
exposing the stark white wood beneath
A few brown withered leaves 
that stubbornly refuse to fall
continue clinging to its branches 
fluttering in the frigid winter wind
like fringe from the tattered shroud
of a lonesome ghost...

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white keys of birch trees 
black keys of spruces and pines - 
music of twilight

8.20.2019
One Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Rick Parise
Syllables Per Line:	5 7 5...

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