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Birch Poems - Poems about Birch

Premium Member Rambles Through a Forest
Ramble Through a Birch Forest the path is straight and narrow not a rock in the way birches as far as the eye can see their trunks, like tall slender asparagus stalks, reach skyward their caps, leaves bunched at the top like celery I look at their white bark imagining sweet birch beer distilled or the sturdy canoes dug out of tough trunks I would like...

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Categories: birch, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Birch Tree's Confidence and The Weeping Willow's Lament
A BIRCH TREE'S CONFIDENCE A young tree stands tall Rooted to the woodland floor Thinks itself immune To all the struggles in store As ignorant as a child THE WEEPING WILLOW'S LAMENT In the end, all trees Must surrender to decay Seep into the dirt Shut their eyes and slip away It’s a fate none can escape...

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Categories: birch, 9th grade, death, humanity,
Form: Tanka



Traitorous Eye by Charles d’Orleans translation
French poems by Charles d’Orleans in modern English translations by Michael R. Burch Traitorous Eye by Charles d’Orleans loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Traitorous eye, what’s new? What lewd pranks do you have in view? Without civil warning, you spy, And no one ever knows why! Who understands anything you do? You’re rash and crass in your boldness too, And your lewdness is hard...

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Categories: birch, death, fear, grave, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The View of the Sugarbush
Rippling soil sways in ways In ways a maestro drunkenly Displays their baton, Earth in Perfect fluid Earthen motion It conducts and plays en tandem The symphony of syrup season Rings through Vermont’s silken air Each movement weaves effortless In majesty. Hickory smoke leaves the sap house The chorus of birch bark harkens Weaving through the chimney’s maw A mirror of the lone sugarmaker His jaw a practiced...

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Categories: birch, appreciation, earth, mountains, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member birch branches
springs fresh birch branches srtrong enough for fat squirrel eating an acorn...

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Categories: birch, animal,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member birch trees
crumpled peeling bark exposes trees true beauty without any flaws...

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Categories: birch, nature,
Form: Haiku
Picnic With Birch Trees
Birch wood trees, Black and White Green grass grows, fresh Flowers bloom, but hide Sun gleams yellow, Thoughts take flight...

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Categories: birch, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Birch Trees
I clutch at the magazines, the letters, the newspaper cutouts I look through your old notebooks tracing over rows and rows of numbers a library catalog, a stamp l’m looking for something more personal something that could make me feel you again there are birch trees everywhere you look I missed them, I longed for them almost as much...

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Categories: birch, 11th grade, grandfather, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lake Side Birch Trees
I could look at this painting forever, oh Klimt was a talent lake side with birch trees is where I would like to be beside the dappled blue still water . . . picking...

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Categories: birch, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Birch
The forgotten ramblings of an old acorn, Will never become anything. A mighty and tall tree, Will not yield to the axe below. But it still falls....

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Categories: birch, death, fate, growth, integrity,
Form: Free verse
The Silver Birch
The white leather creaks As damp pith breathes Thin and strong Against a solemn sky. As branches again take Punishment from northern winds The trunk stands firm Steeling itself for the assault ahead. Straight despite the brutish Harsh and relentless gusts The leather flakes and peels Like a snake shedding skin. Ready for the new birth Another year is coming A cycle of the earth...

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Categories: birch, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
Birch Tree
bare birch tree swaying blizzard blows away branches ~ chiding chickadee 5th December 2022 For Tania Kitchin's "Winter Nature Themed Haiku" contest...

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Categories: birch, bird, tree, winter,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Springtime Reveries
Buttery affection rains from the skies Nurturing the tulips and daffodils Bursts of joy upon the earth, to arise With wonderous smiles, sunny thrills Robins and wrens wrestle with the wind Laughing and crooning, inspiring serenity Warring with the windchimes, chagrined By the swirling charms of love’s amenity Oaks and birch whisper to the affections Offering their silent hope with a caress From the budding...

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Categories: birch, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, daffodils,
Form: Rhyme
The Birch Tree
The birch tree bends over the abandoned playground its papery thin bark peeling exposing the stark white wood beneath A few brown withered leaves that stubbornly refuse to fall continue clinging to its branches fluttering in the frigid winter wind like fringe from the tattered shroud of a lonesome ghost searching for fellow lost souls looming over the empty swings and the...

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Categories: birch, childhood, children, snow, spring,
Form: Free verse
The Birch Tree
Cover me with the haze of Fragmented years, Let me sleep through this autumn Where rains greedily devour Dying leaves, And streams flow into the rotten silence. Clothe me with the moss Which grew in the wrinkles of the forehead, Make me senseless for the cruel fingers of the northerly wind, And the silver which dwells On Venus Hill, Just...

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Categories: birch, betrayal, depression, emotions, farewell,
Form: Free verse

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