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Buttonwood Poems - Poems about Buttonwood


Conch Sound
...Conch Sound the garden of North Andros the place where my father's navel string lay The settlement sits on the vicinity of the waterfront with old Bahamian vessels piloted by One Eyed Jacob drif......

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Categories: buttonwood, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Bonsai: the Greening Oriental Art
.../em>, for Japanese Yew! So, don’t confuse a plant with the Ibex Ilex serrata – that’s Christmas Holly Or Japanese Winterberry Butterflies, butternuts, a Buttinsky? Shut your eyes, it’s Conocarpus erectus (Pastor here is only saying "Buttonwood" in Latin) Meanwhile in nature, the pines of Japan Are dwarfed like bottled thunder: Pinus thunbergiana The Christmas Spirit is perennial in China (?) Schinus terebin......

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Categories: buttonwood, art, flower, garden, humor,
Form: Didactic



The Buttonwood
...One day while wandering with a friend Down country road to river’s bend, A wooden bridge o’er country mile, Alone, we sat there for a while. ‘Twas in our youth this late September Two souls to......

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Categories: buttonwood, autumn, memory, nature, september,
Form: Light Verse

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