Best Cedar Poems

A beautiful cedar developed easily,
Planted in my garden so peacefully.
A striking exemplar in deep verdant green.
Keeps my delightful backyard nice and clean.

Reddish scented tall upright virgin wood
One needs to study its habit and understood.
No one should think of pruning without learning
One must be sage and...

Continue reading...

LESSON FROM CEDAR FALLS

A stream of water high above came to a rocky cliff,
Cascaded downward from the ledge, not once debating if
The flow should steer to right or left from a protrusion there,
But letting forces steer its way without a single care.
The fingers met on...

Continue reading...

And his frost-clad lips I gently kissed
So mildly radiant amid this  place--
That the silvery night grew quite intense
Until a gasp rushed from his cheeks.
While awakening to each other
       Our throbs exploded into daybreak…
     ...

Continue reading...

The cedar towered above the shingled roof,
Its tapered branches hiding squirrels and birds
until the day when Hugo swept the hills
uprooting poplars, whipping wind-wilted
leaves against the parlor window.
The cedar fell, its prodigious bulk
flattened against the sodden earth.
For years it lay along the gravel drive.
The neighbor though...

Continue reading...

How else can a mortal envisage your greatness
if not through the envy of the majestic existence
of the cedar of Lebanon?
Your lofty height is damped in shady foliage
And beautiful branches multiplying with long boughs

Underground springs direct their rivers
all around the place where you’re planted
making you greater...

Continue reading...

I had nearly forgotten who I was
Until I sensed your easy strength
   and heard the timelessness 
   of your years;
Until I caught the sparkle
   of your lacy light
   and showered
   in your fragrance
Until I recognized...

Continue reading...

He
travelled
far and wide,
studied Arabic :
A famous orientalist :
An Oxford scholar and doctor of Divinity.

Here
was
a man,
the Rector
of Childrey parish,
the Reverend Edward Pococke.

He
planted
in the year
sixteen forty two,
a cedar of Lebanon seed.

Now
the
oldest
cedar tree
in this pleasant land
still grows in the Old Rectory
in the delightful village of Childrey, Oxfordshire....

Continue reading...

Red cedar soars high
back lit by ruby red sky
as day fades to night...

Continue reading...

Music fills the air, as the  radio plays
Letting go of memories, bringing back forgotten faces
Daddy took that photograph...a captured you, a smiling trace
A magic moment....a magic day...
You gave me your cameo, that birthday in May...
There was joy in your face, while I posed dressed...

Continue reading...

Cedar tree standing
On the edge of the canyon
Weathered by time...

Continue reading...

The contour of shade,
Casts a sweet smell of cedar;
Scent of Spring’s return....

Continue reading...

a flash of light ...
thunder clapped like cannons as
into the old tree
we scurried ...
the mouth of its little
hollowed-out gut, yawning like some
tired old man from a Dickens story ...
perhaps the chin of the
ghost of Jacob Marley, let loose in
horrid fashion from its
binding bandages ...

the soft...

Continue reading...

a spindly cedar
blown by the northerly wind...
winter's sun rise ...

Continue reading...

‘Twas a child’s game of hide and seek,
My brother’s turn to count.
Where could I hide he would not look,
Thus settle our account?

Our mother’s room, her closet, No!
He’ll check there first of all.
The bathroom, No! I hid there once.
The chest beside the wall!

I climbed inside that...

Continue reading...

blue cedar shed tears 
sun glimmer beckon the stars
squirrel garner fruit

5/28/2018...

Continue reading...