Best Pine Cone Poems

Can pine cones actually predict how harsh winter will be?
If a harsh winter is on the way, pine trees create more pine cones.Thinking if squirrels & birds share their opinion on the coming season, they will collect more pine seeds & stock up ahead of...

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*A Single Pine Cone*

A single pine cone
Lying on a bed of snow
Its shadow seen against the morning’s curtain
Lying there cold and all alone
A pine needles throw from the old blue spruce
Sleep little pine cone
Sleep so tenderly
For soon the sun will nudge you more intently
Announcing the...

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pine cone was the root
prayer was the foundation
newfound is new life...

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The pine cone,
The wooden pine cone,
The brown pine cone,
Had a long story to narrate,
Its parent tree grew along a hill slope,
Fruit was born on its node,
When tree was about twenty feet long,
It began as a green soft nodal presence,
Loads of nutrient soon came along,
Sun shone...

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Pine cone resting in tree top,

when a gentle little breeze,

gives him a little push,

falling so slowly to the

ground, kissing the needles

as it passes on by.

written 5-9-11...

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In a rain, 
a pine cone fell
from a tree
above the meadow 
and rolled in front of a Buffalo
staring at the Yellowstone,

As it’s pelt was pelted
With the raindrops....

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The pine cone sits and rests,
features and expression indelible.
At a season of tricky tests,
its prickly scales are incredible,
open and close, fully flexible.

Life-giving rain makes it fold.
outer scales extend, then close.
Until drying winds, it will hold. 
Then sweet release! Its pose
is fully spread, brash and bold!

Its...

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