Best Elm Poems

Budgie managed to get me to write again, I am very grateful to him for providing me with the first stanza, he's a wonderful friend :)

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Elm stood regally and rigid.
Ivy looked up in awe
and said, a little timid: 
“Ahhhh, to be so big,
close to the...

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Rooted on a moss-banked hill,
its branches spread far and wide.
By Summer's end, leaves veined gold and crimson.
Then, Autumn’s hand brushed them with russet paint.
Twas the time of year the elm tree despised.
Wind ruffled in their last days,
leaves danced as if burning flames,
until gales sent them...

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I saw the Elm trees 
Standing tall in the cold winter
The freezing wind has withered their dense leaves
Blowing up alike  fireflies 

Their tough branches hit the hurricane
I heard the wind hissing in pain

The baptism of the wind 
Revealing the resilience of the trees 
When...

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I had a cat, a large one
I thought I loved the cat
The cat thought he loved me too!

Then, one day,
They took the cat away
The cat, with the bassinet, the little furry presence
And Sameeha’s science club chapstick
And I thought I was kissing scientific a book cover
Where...

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You Never Know What You’ll See on Elm Street

Take my hand – follow the plan,
Let’s go for a walk down wide Spruce Street;
Friends to play with and neighbors to greet 
But now that we see all that we can
Let’s turn the corner and go to...

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"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"

There are rumours
about me, some 
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart 
shaped planchettes

unanswered questions
in the woods, crackling
within the sounds of leaves
invisible dead things speaking 
underfoot white noise
boxes that ghosts 
are meant to genuinely
speak through 

radio...

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"My college try at 'You're in a Horror film "


               something has taken over his spirit
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Sitting under the old elm tree with
his sweet heart many a year ago,
her hazel eyes looking at him
with tears flowing down her
beautiful tender face.

War had come and he must
do his duty, he told her
that dreadful day in 
June of 1917.

Don't go, please stay,
I can't bear...

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The Mighty Elm tree

Piercing high into the sky

lots of shade below...

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Thoughts of an Old Elm Tree

I am tired, oh, so tired,
My dried brown leaves are falling,
I am losing my looks before my time,
In the hot dry unnatural heat’s
Appalling late summertime, and so
I dream of last year’s emerald lush,
Of intermittent sweet raindrops,
Even fall’s first cold blush,...

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When we sleep we expect sweet dreams
        The kind where we  ride  on moonbeams
Where everything is lovely and nice
            Sweet dreams made of sugar and...

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Elm once clad in gold

   Has shed its colorful cloak

       Awaits winter storms

         Bare limbs lifted heavenward

            As...

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Thoughts of an Old October Elm Tree

My browning leaves decry
My farewell to Mrs. Summer and her plush;
With her desperate gasping push
Against cold and coming days.

When Ms. Spring thrust her first rose bud,
Putting to bed Old Man Winter’s last blow, then
I wondered would I see her...

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Elm Tree Haiku

rotting elm
diseased of beetle-
left to die


Written 28.4.18...

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