UNDERGROWTH
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Undergrowth painted on the canvas
showing kaleidoscope of feral flower bed.
Simultaneous two human figures.
Man is stepping forward
on shrubs, herbs !
Do they belo...
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Categories:
branchless, tree,
Form: Free verse
Undergrowth With Two Figures - Van Gogh
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By his hand was grown a forest
trees aligned as fence posts
trunks accentuated lavender and blue,
but not as a spruce
and purple strokes, not disguised as prose
in a woodland cut short in pro...
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Categories:
branchless, art, introspection,
Form: Free verse
A Gallery of Passing Clouds
...These thoughts we frame and title
hang now from long defunct dendrites,
made branchless by the passé and pointless
now all strung-up upon threadbare strings.
Ones or twice the hanged are molest...
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Categories:
branchless, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Swang
...Listen to the cadence of the Elders
of freshly felled trees
Torn asunder, branchless
breaks for cover
The village playground
was deserted
No Moon yet
just a swing
swang by a ghost of a chi...
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Categories:
branchless, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Intimate Friend
...Anchor buried spurs ensure attachment
Hatches battoned down forbid intrusion
Watertight twine form fidelity's augment
Underpinning intimacy, disciplined union
Ashore in our two mortal trample...
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Categories:
branchless, best friend, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Pine Cathedral
...Deep in the woods, nearly three miles back,
far from New York with its tall glass and steel,
on a low ridge that has no proper name,
I stumble on something that feels surreal.
An old-growth for...
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Categories:
branchless, appreciation, beauty, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Topical Tree Poetry - Love
...LOVE
love a human trait
togetherness in nature
instinctive you will find
love
amour
ardour
liaison
devotion
adoration
endearment
idolization
besottedness
unselfishness
ha...
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Categories:
branchless, love,
Form: I do not know?
Topical Tree Poetry - Dust Devils
...DUST DEVILS
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Topical Tree Poetry
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the African plains
once lush... verdant... living
dust devils now reign
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in the jungle
the sightly found a living
a...
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Categories:
branchless, nature,
Form: I do not know?
Topical Tree Poetry - Deforestation
...DEFORESTATION
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Topical Tree Poetry
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Deforestation rife!
From copse to woodlands
And trees on their own suffer the knife!
Deforestation rife!
Rainforest to jung...
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Categories:
branchless, nature, pollution,
Form: I do not know?
The Topical Tree Poetry -The Joy of Life
...THE JOY OF LIFE
SNOWBALLING
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the joy of life
snowballing
I've tried and tried to entice
belief in that all snowballs end up thawing
the joy of life
is quickly g...
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Categories:
branchless, humanity, life,
Form: I do not know?
Winter Wilds
...Winter Wilds
Calm down the forest greens
Branchless trees stripped bare
Torn apart by weight
Broken limbs by seasons ice
Coupled with sinister wind
Blown away are the leaves and twigs
Tall ...
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Categories:
branchless, change, image, life, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Woodsmen Day
...Woodsmen Day ( Poem)
Sport using handsaws
With a toothed edge blade
One or two handed sawing
On a woodsmen fair day
Traditional log rolling
Is a lumberjacks technique
Style used in river d...
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Categories:
branchless, adventure, community, culture, encouraging,
Form: ABC
Vicarious Mold
...Hewn with story untold
Towering mass cut then rolled
Bared, stripped leaving majestic mold
Surrounded with ringed truths manifold
Cored, its residual value poled
Branchless foil whose tender hat...
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Categories:
branchless, nature
Form: Rhyme
Trees Without a Forest
...It’s just another story in the wind
Of the naked trees with their
Hollow dreams…
Like the creak of the wooden door…
Like the smell of fuming lumber.
It’s this song that blows
In the breeze
W...
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Categories:
branchless, love, nature, nostalgiafarewell, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Palm Tree
...A tall branchless trunk,
With lush, palmate sun-kissed leaves:
Tropical beauty....
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Categories:
branchless, nature
Form: Haiku
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