Best Bonsai Poems

Bonsai, tree-flower
Make me small enough
To sleep in your shadow...

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As I walked among the Bonsai Trees
Feeling no  physical attraction at all 
Figuring I had come this far 
Why not
Give you a chance to...

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Jade Bonsai - Haiku

low light tolerant
wax green by black rocks landscape 
small tree, giant dreams...

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Volcanic clay soil 
Interwoven roots through rocks;
Pruned limbs reach for sun....

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I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.

Studying the said effects on...

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Standing all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken...

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where the seagull dies
stringless origami cries
loneliness of soul

koi fish suffocate
colors fade in Bonsai trees
island in distress

words not understood
shadows grin tricks on rice walls
tsunamis in eyes

geisha...

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Economic woes had struck

She couldn’t feed her children

Purchased a small “Money Tree”

Hoping it would grow





*Entry for Francine’s “Flowers, Trees, Grass or Bees” contest

The "Money Tree"...

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Come along with me as I journey East
where fragile cherry blossoms flutter
before raining down from cloudless skies.
Let's climb majestic mountains whose crests 
are always laced...

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bonsai trees
despotic rule stunts
liberty


Placed 2nd...

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All About Japan

A feather plummets slacks downwards,
a sparrowhawk caught prey soars upwards,

bonsai trees grow its shadow midst sunrise,
cherry blossoms shade a path,
sugis eclipse a shrine,

maguro...

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The lack of a single-word inflammable
in our lanterns is what is killing me
 
this morpheme
          ...

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Inside a bamboo garden, where I followed a red-crowned crane 
an exotic treasure of another sort held me spellbound 
seated upon the lawn, a courtesan...

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Sighs yet again

a fold here,
a crease there

origami wings
that are limp,
drenched

looking pretty lonely and pathetic
under, that, crying, sky, , , ,
     ...

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Memorial
Under a tree
Slowly growing.
A distorted bonsai?
The frangipani belongs 
To coastal climes far warmer
Then here in a cool but beautiful
Valley high in the mountains of Timor
Which...

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