Best Twig Poems

I wandered lonely as a twig
that fell into an endless stream.
I’d turn and sometimes make a zig
or bob along in a bad dream.
No longer on a branch was I
to gaze steadfastly at blue sky.

Instead this stream was moving me
so rapidly – I knew not where.
Oh,...

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A harvest moon peeps 
Through the silver mango tree
Hermit on a twig...

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romantic setting

beneath green mistletoe twig

two hearts united

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
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Placed No. 10 in Andrea Dietrich's "Haiku Me A Christmas Tree" Contest - Dec 2010...

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Why this day you break
The only productive twig 
The giver of life to many 
A shelter to the birds 
Of different kinds and color 
Not even a tear you wipe 
Your eyes dry like charcoal 
In love you were with it 
All gone never to...

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the green twig
from the failing honeysuckle
presses this window
leads me to love the green force
even in chilly december...

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The heat is soaring;
No breeze to allay;
Little puff clouds drifting,
Magnolia leaves falling,
No moisture in sight,
A twig lay on the bannister,
Or that’s what it tries to be,
It is a long camouflaged insect
Yearning to be free.

Fly away, twigged bug, 
And message the clouds to rain....

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When time does pass so quickly and things aren't what they were back then,
I sometimes sit and wonder how things might have been.

What if I now were different? Been raised in a different way?
What if different stars had crossed my path, that brought me to...

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Brittle and broken, the eucalyptus snaps loudest.
Pulverized by constant wear
of boots on dusty trails.
Debris of lifeless memories
detached from vital source,
scattered broken on apathetic earth,
pummeled by the passerby.
A lifetime of transforming sunlight obliterated
in the spiraling downward dance of fall,
to publicly mourn its own demise
at the foot...

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a twig snap
from the cliff -
bobcat

treetops glint
in sunlight -
jackrabbit leaps

footpath
between the trees -
hoot owl

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a twig snap
from the cliff -
bobcat

treetops glint
in the sunlight -
jackrabbit leaps

footpath
between the trees -
hoot owl

...

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Long ago I had a coroner friend.
Wasn't long before he shared his dark stories...
People passing away in strange ways-in strange places.
Distorted postures-a maggot's buffet.
People going for a bite to eat-never returning...
his confessions never leave me.

I shared my stories with him.
but they paled in comparison to...

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I was feeling like I was beginning to forgive
I had started to make peace

So, I decided to reach out
Test the waters
Extend an olive twig

And within the exchange of only a few words
You snapped it in two

October 18, 2020
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A worthless-seeming
Twig pile mixed with twine and string
  ~ Mother bird's jewels...

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The pale leaves of spring unfurl in splendor
A soft blanket covers the land
Forest and fields wake 
As a gentle wind blows in the heat of summer
Tall grass stands perched on the dry ground
Birds sing in the early morning
Then seek a shady perch
Life in motion
All in...

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Li Bai translations

These are my modern English translations of Chinese poems by Li Bai, also known as Li Po.



Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
by Li Bai
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Now the birds have deserted the sky
and the last cloud slips down the drains.

We sit together, the mountain...

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