Best Catkins Poems

28/2/2012

Snow covered earth lies still on a cold and frosty February morn,
Floating & frolicking in the breeze Sentiment of spring still unborn.

Spring starved eyes dart...

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                Oh, weeping willow - friend to me
  ...

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tiny cotton paws
whispering into the wind~
catkins soft meow...

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Spring Flower Song


Oh lovely Spring, at Winter’s end, you sing and dance
Within our waiting hearts as we look forward to
How nature’s Springtime’s palette will create...

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A noble Black Oak tree stands tall and tranquil 
Wearing brown, old and dried crumpled leaves
Withstanding all autumn and winter storms
Without any distress or any...

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"the willows dip
Their pendent boughs, stooping as if to drink." William Cowper

To a Weeping Willow

The graceful, sweeping green
I remember seeing it,
my first weeping willow
 graceful...

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Aconites gazing into the sun
'neath catkins dangling,finely spun

Awakened mammals desert their holes
rummaging midst the hazel boles

Long twilight days in winter's shade
tomorrow..brings snowdrops in the glade...

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pink catkins
of eastern cottonwood-
happy offspring

tree flowering
in the sun-
beaver waits patiently

moon shines
upon her coral blossoms-
cricket chirps

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Time ticks on
and I am its minutes
crafting the hour
of poetic germination.

No longer will I write words
reminiscent of willow-like catkins.

But shall bloom true poetic flowers
whose petals...

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Catkins, Catkins peek out your furry head
Upon the branchlet within the meadow
Remember curiosity killed the cat, stone dead

Nature's furry, cocoons upon the willow
Beat the leaf...

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Anything but spring
I've no time for frivolity
and the increase in daylength
constricts my nocturnal emissions.
The snow is almost gone,
white replaced by mud,
and the red bird's cheery...

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Snowfall so heavy in 'eighty-two
 reproduced a Christmas card view.
A biting wind swirled in one foot drifts
 over hanging in bridges..makeshift.

The fields flooded into skating...

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The January snow has thawed and gone at last
And in its wake a single snowdrop stands :
It grew unseen beneath a shining shroud
Which melted to...

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Towards the middle of the April the wind changes and the showers fall,
We hide under the branches of an old fir tree sheltering from the...

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Catkins
and cowslips,
primroses too-
celandine stars..yellow
my view...

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