Best Red Maple Poems

Too long since smooth sapling skin
bent supple with the slightest breeze;
now stretched, fissured and furrowed -
bored, burned and bent - 
sliced, scarred and carved, yet
I have lived wonderfully and fully.

Old limbs that once swung
a laughing child and sheltered
more than one forbidden kiss;
the only witness to...

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I lie back in the weather-proofed green chair
To gaze up at the flowering maple tree.
Now, touched by sun,lungs full of scented air
I embrace with joy the beauty I now see.

Old celandine show brightly by my feet
Neglected currant bushes straggle round the path
There is no birdsong...

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Red Maple

Smiling Red Maple
Red leaves; red heart; shining bright
Take my love; hold it...

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RED MAPLE MEMORIES


Winters have ravaged me
twisted and broken my limbs
scalded me with burning winds

			I miss the birds nest
			torn from my grasp
			by an icy gale

Spring tickles my roots
sets my sap to percolating
awakens my purpose

			I long for the mist filled dawn
			sweet trickling dew dripping
			on my budding blush

Summers...

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red maple leaves
in autumn wind
quivering



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on June 27, 2018...

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Red Maple

Water seeking roots,
Leaf margin-toothed,
What is hunger

To one always hungry?
Sated by superiority, dead
wood cut by a neck

So pruned of stubble, so
Neonatal it disappears when
Turned sideways. Flat red

Coat stitched with peduncles
Of beaded ivory ripples in a
Wind that whitens the underbelly.

The roar of hunger
Sounds off. Its echoes
The...

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