Best Sweet Gum Poems

Those spiked thorns of sweet gum balls
cause a sprawl 
and sprained ankle, 
close calls
Sour my day, sweet gum balls
curse you! so ill befalls!
Once and for all,
no sweet, no sweet gum balls-injury befalls
your innocent victims, vicious, thorny, balls!...

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sweet gum's base wrapped tight
tree's limbs loaded with round balls....
pond catches offsprings  ...

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Death Of A Sweet Gum
Miracle Man
3/14/2022

Leaves cascading as if indiscriminately lost,
casualties of nature and multiple nights frost.
Once a coat of many colors on our Sweet Gum Tree,
they’ve quickly become just more yard debris.

Leaving exposed, a tree with prickly brown balls,
that will winter as ugly until...

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