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Cottonwoods
Soft white tufts jump from tree tops to float down
Dancing and swirling on the warm breezes
They kiss the water’s edge and sail away
Now only memories of them remain

created 1/1/2008...

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Categories: cottonwoods, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nebraska Cottonwoods-
Native, neat noble Nebraska Cottonwood tattered, talented Trees 

Tall, so tall those sturdy Trees 
Nostalgic, gnarly Nebraska Cottonwood teary,
Those terrific Trees 
Our talented truthful trees

7/9/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020 ©...

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Categories: cottonwoods, analogy, appreciation, tree,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Stars and the Cottonwoods
He loved the stories his Grandpa would tell when he’d visit him on the reservation…his favorite story…the one he’d always ask for…was about the stars…and their creation.

“The stars form secretly in the Earth”, Grandpa would begin, as he set him on his knee… “they drift...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cottonwoods, stars,
Form: Rhyme

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