Best Introspectiontree Poems


A Look Inside

I came as an unaffected statue
Halloween depiction depicting everything
vaguely-leaving margins for misinterpretations
like hieroglyphics deciphered by illiterates
scawling crayon scratch book reports

Walk in these shoes
Feel the pavement scrape through openings worn through souls
and feel the contours of the Earth ravaging
           ~merciless~
Take the reigns of this chariot
rambling around on undiscernable tracks often
backwards-hobbling humbly
numbly picking up pieces from a patchwork jigsaw
picture possesing voids in the most beautiful places

Climb this tree and know the shaky footfall limbs
sprawl like weeping willow tendrils on my fathers branch
bare and abandoned like locusts came, fed, and fled
watch the forest flourish and realize
this tree is flawed yet resilient
rooted in the strength of adversity

Stethoscope this heart and enjoy the offbeat beat
thumping in uneven peak and valley arrythmia
loving deeply and loved shallow, coldly
berating every executioner who killed
my adoration quotient with dull unfeeling axes
Leaving tides turned, churning me to hurt
Vengefully....Senselessly
Leaving no paths passing me passively
~~passion is my blessing and curse

Premium Member The Nourishing River

Focusing on that river that supplies nourishment
Clear as a crystal, flowing from the throne of God

In the mist of it is The Tree of Life that bears 
Twelve manner of fruit, yielding every month

The leaves of that Tree are for the healing
That river, beautiful, crystal clear is the source

(Based on Revelation 22:1-2) (This was inspired by Brian Strand's .)

Insight

If love was all it took to succeed
 I woud be red oak instead of weed
 Committment, faithfulness feed
 Still through every fiber to all in need
 But we who walk the straight line
 Are the devoured ones you'll find.

 And each time left behind by one
 I am sure about, my fragment grows
 Less, a tree may grow in the sun
 Or wither unless some water flows
 Into the roots quiet, and deep
 Where all my secrets there I keep.

 This poem then is a fissure in the rock
 The churning magma will grow 
 Hard again, and tree rings like a clock
 Will tell but will not openly show
 The years that make xylem wood
 The tears that make the heart to brood.


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