Best Pecan Tree Poems

The wind billows out from the seat of his britches
With determined blue eyes, skinned knuckles and knees
he climbs up the rails nailed from old cedar pieces
to the uppermost yoke of an old pecan tree

He is Captain on board, in pretend salty breezes
From his perch in...

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I found a pecan on the ground
I picked it up when no one was around
Sitting in the hall outside of class crying because her classmates were teasing and talking about her. The student didn't want to go back in the class, I stopped, talked and...

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there stands
such
a gracious
elderly lady
positioning
herself
in the confines
of my fenced
back yard,

silent
as she speaks,
nor moving
her limbs
until the winds
comes
to rob her
of her dress,
swaying green
fabric,

but still
proud,
full of life
bearing
her children,
not 
one or two,
but countless
numbers
all held close
to her breast,
growing, 
waiting,

now,
in the late
time of fall,
each child
ready
to free
themselves,
a wave
goodbye
as she
reluctantly
watches
them 
leave home....

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