Best Dryad Poems

The widow among roses,
though a scent so sweet 
she smells to near smile,
how red the vibrance of life
and soft the petals caress
her lonely cheek,
she remembers...

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Timmy Tom Tuck was a young fellow with charm
who one summer stayed at his grandfather's farm.
He loved to eat ice cream and Grandma's baked goods
but...

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An oak tree, three hundred years he had stood.
Half-dryad, half-man, he has seen about everything,
Sadness and kindness, but never has he felt truly loved.

A tender...

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Winter finally moves his lumpen sluggish weight,

Spring is like a shy dryad shivering in his arms

Wind's whippets droop to trifling whine

Sullen rain hisses to a...

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I saw one day a city of trees
Walking down a path with me
Following hidden eyes to see

Saplings jungled up together
Like a stream of walkers too
Confused...

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Hey,
Do you smell that?
That musky scent 
      with earthy undertones
leading off to the right.

Slipping into a lope,
as silent as the...

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My heart has sought your mystery
guardian dryad, ivy tressed tree,
other worldly mound and ley;
long I’ve searched the fair Sidhe.

Here, found I the ancient long bone,
the...

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"Here Runneth the Path of Fairy Feet"
by Rachel Heffington

Where childhood fancy and twilight meet
Here runneth the path of fairy-feet;
On shadowed road and misty bend
Here coldsome...

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The young trees weren't agog with winter snow
As the leaves chose to wither than grow,
Wafting gently its autumnal crocus to the frozen ground,
While the night...

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I dwell on virgin moments lightly spent
beyond the lips of verdant fairy glens
A grand invincibility was mine
and life, ah life, the sweetest purest wine.

I danced...

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In souls myriad rested light
and on ballets tip toe fluttered the leaf 
perchance the destiny of butterflies meet
to glide with dandelions seed

Catch the dryad hymn...

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Once upon  a time, 
In the middle of a September
Along a long, winding path near the creek,
I spotted the most beautiful thing. 
A flower...

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(A parody on Keat’s Ode to a Nightengale)


My stomach aches and thunder rumbles in my bowel
	as if one minute past, I had eaten something foul.
To...

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A world arises as dryad clusters of interlaced oysteruos flair umbrellas fairies from sunburst orb piercing rays.  Vast umbra fae churn soil into a...

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Written: April 19, 2024 For Constance la France Z Words Contest

Rumi Quote: "Flowers every night blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace,...

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