Best Redwood Poems

I was once a little twig with dreams of being a mighty tree
So people would come from all around just to look at me
As the years started to come and go I fell in love with the wind
I would open myself big and wide swaying...

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 The human spirit needs places where
nature has not been rearranged
by the hand of man
Author Unknown

A metal rail now mocks the space

where a massive trunk once rose two hundred feet, 
and a long stairway, and a sign,and a doorway
 make up  ‘The Stump Hotel.’...

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The roots of my existence are unique
For unlike other trees of my kind
I was planted by a city street
In a yard, in a town, is where I reside.

I was well cared for in my early years
As I grew up proud, tall and strong
I saw children...

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Majestic Redwood
Boughs acsending toward heaven
Kissing the Angels...

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Triumph of nature, witness of time
Reaching high into to the sky, bursting from natures skin
Everlasting— Sequoia Sempervirens through death and rebirth 
Evermore feeding the forest floor....

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Roughened, reddened fibrous shell
Vibrant life still fresh and green
Thickened feet and arms
Embrace the stars and sky
Growing higher every day
Thousands, years gone by 
Yet still the old one reaches on
Urged on by the rain and sun
And life that courses up so high
Some time ago a friend,...

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The Redwood Forest



Standing tall, tops in the mist,
Red giants from another time.
Remembering the birth of Christ,
Looking now at modern Man.

The forest floor in muted silence,
Filtered light finds the rhododendron.
God’s original cathedral soars,
A place to find peace and beauty.

Walk awhile with past history,
Place your hand upon...

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Skies are Blue
Trees are green
I keep on walking round that redwood tree,
I keep on walking around that redwood tree.

I've been walking
For days on end
And I still can't see
The light again.
So I'll keep on walking round that redwood tree,
I'll keep on walking round that redwood tree


I've...

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Children play on the stumps of the fallen giants, mocked in death by the glitter of disco lights and the raucous cheers of drunks.

Asphalt long melted round their dead roots where once they hovered over what is today the RV dump station, the lit restrooms,...

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On a dusty and narrow path dwarfed by the enormous
redwood trees, which have conquered all of the soft-blue sky;
I walk and I'm astonished by the tallest of them all! 
Winter has left and the snows begin to melt away, to invite a lovely butterfly
to perch...

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You are tall and strong

my love

Like the ancient redwoods

among the trees              of the forest

Living     tender         and green

filled with the ...

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California redwood tree.
The tallest tree on the earth.
How majestically you stand.
King of the forest.

Robert Pettit for Russell’s Trees Everywhere contest.
...

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Redwood Ride

I rise, I rise, on a redwood ride,
Pages dropping aflutter;
Clouds cloaking, angels singing
Filling the air with ethereal joy!

Through wings of winsome warblers, I rise,
Through showers of diamond drops, I rise,
On their way to dress diamond lakes.
No weight of worries, light and free.

The horizon hides...

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The poet begins the reading

'I'm sentimental if you know what I mean.'
'Oh, that's good!'

I thought about this cuckoo hissing
At the Botanical Gardens 

He'd also mediated on the stratosphere
That sponge up above 

Accordingly, so did I too
Footslogging around the museum

I took a sufti at my phone...

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Eulogy

Sing eulogy, O wind, 
Crying out the sorrow,
Howling deep within your zephyr,
For branches where you once entwined
Your restless fingers
Into a joyful melody of rustling boughs
In lyric song;
Hear now, as you pass, only memories
Floating on the air in search of forest arms
Where once the lullaby of...

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