Best Walnut Poems

Like a lost firefly my mind strays 
Concealed like a ripe walnut
My heart is shelled by enclosure 

Waiting to be cracked open... 
To be served on platinum trays 
For whom ever needs some exposure

 
My donation of hope and faith... 
Or perhaps you need just...

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as my fears subside the tree I planted in spring is showing growth

Written Aug 18, 2016 For John Hamilton's Monoku Madness  Contest...

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a walnut tree -

the fruits of its labor

spilled at its feet


April 29, 2018...

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universes in reverse

verses in reverse
still form words
less symbols to believe
less letters to read
folding back into past
accidents
that could never quite
realize or
describe
all the mechanics going on
after all this time
gone...

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The old walnut tree in the meadow weep
Time had arrived her strains in sorrow steep

Echoes of a nameless and powerful storm break in
I feel shivers on my bare skin

I would like to touch and hug it, before it dies
The roots of the tree pointing up...

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a walnut waltzing with a willow tree
A molecule is neither a destitute mop without a bucket house. Nor is it a seven acre field that is very cold due to having no grass. Even the most prepared of ground is a haven for a gloved...

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As I passed my wicket fence
The ageing walnut tree, 
Showered me with withered leaves
And said something to me; 

That it stood since ages past
But I had never seen, 
Crimson light upon its leaves
Thus how twilight had been; 

I glimpsed not the sparrow's nest
That lay upon...

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Out the back
Behind gran's house
Halfway down the street.
The little yard with the mangle.
And the narrow concrete strip path
That led to the other end,
Where the walnut tree ruled.

A musty tangled wilderness
Of corrugated iron and wire.
Only bluebells were allowed
To grow in the cool shade
Of the walnut tree.

Spreading...

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Raisin said, “Rum, I’m beginning to see
that there will be times when we cannot agree.
Disputes shouldn’t leave us at a complete loss
So I think it’s proper that I should be boss.”

Rum gave a stare that was more of a glare
And said, “Hey up, Sister, you...

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Once summer green
then Autumn gold
bedecked this ancient tree-
Today silhouette laid bare
misletoed in winter frieze....

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There’s not a sound
In the woods
But for the lone, heavy
Thump
Of a walnut
Shed
From its tree
To the ground,
Re-affirming
That the Earth
Is not hollow.

I’m startled by the thud, so thick, so full
It could be a bull
Stomping its hoof into a dry field,

But, the Earthy wallop reveals
An abundance

From underneath,
A community...

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By Dawne Zacharias

Walnut Hill was a favorite place for us
When the snow had covered the ground
The sledders would go and the saucers would glide
there was no other place, in our winter town
then dear old Walnut Hill.

We'd look outside, the snow four feet deep 
We would...

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THE AMAZING BLACK WALNUT
High in the tree, Daddy shook a branch
to make them fall 
don't let them hit your head.
An outer shell,
green halfway to the pit
as time would turn it black
after their fall.

Our gunny sacks now filled,
fried chicken for reward
under the ancient tree
of hardest wood...

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recalcitrant nut
will not yield its hidden heart
resists invasion
patience gone where is hammer?
walnut obliterated.





" N" Poems
Nutty
Poetry Contest
Sponsored
by
Constance La France
20/09/2021...

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walnut tree in fruit
best pickled green eat with cheese-
carved Chinese treasure
...

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