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Catalpa Poems - Poems about Catalpa


Premium Member Tree of Souls
...It stood like a sentinel at the world’s bleak last shore, its gnarled branches clawing at a churning grey November sky, above a thin and narrowing yellow band of waning light auguring the comin......

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Categories: catalpa, myth, nature, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member moonflower
... I … am provenience … the heel of my father’s foot - the damp of his brow and his burgeon … I am my mother’s bloom sown in the soil of her intentions seeded with wonder and promise … but ......

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Categories: catalpa, analogy, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Beth Hart
...She missed out on music lessons as a child. Her parents taught her piano, which was so mild. For years, she worked poorly and was lackluster. And quit piano as a preteen as she couldn'......

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Categories: catalpa, analogy, appreciation, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Cats
...While Cataloguing Catacombs in ancient Kathmandu he chanced upon a Catamaran from nineteen sixty-two. He Categorized Caterpillars in an old Catalpa tree he grabbed a limb that ......

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Categories: catalpa, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Catalpa Trees Bloom In June
...White flowy flowers Long bean pods Huge heart shaped leaves Limbs twisted in knots Sitting in the shade Of the fifty-foot high Fifty years old Reaching up to the sky Daddy climbed the same W......

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Categories: catalpa, june, tree,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Iron Willed Elm
...Mourning the holes in my canopy Three Catalpa now The Maple next door My own Cedars And the Pine that brought the Crossbills But then there's the little Elm on my block It's spine entwined with......

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Categories: catalpa, appreciation, bereavement, tree,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Haiku - Catalpa
...catalpa - fronds as grand green spades... orchid strands ~ 2nd Place ~ in the "Haiku - Trees" Poetry Contest, Mick Talbot, Sponsor.......

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Categories: catalpa, beauty, nature, tree,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Country In Me--Redux
...Muscadine grape vine entwine...smell of bovine forest edge sedge briars growing down the line. I love the country The country loves me I’m as rock solid planted As my hundred year old tree......

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Categories: catalpa, people, old, love, old,
Form: Free verse
Catalpa Worms
... In East Texas, the Catalpa tree thrives A parasite eats its leaves to survive A Catalpa worm is black striped on green In the summer, they often strip the tree clean It’s a caterpilla......

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Categories: catalpa, nature, tree, tree,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Love the Country In Me
...Muscadine grape vine entwine...smell of bovine forest edge sedge briars growing down the line. I love the country The country loves me I’m as rock solid planted As my hundred year old tree......

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Categories: catalpa, devotionold, love, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Indian Bean
...Wind rustles through the yard- the catalpa chimes.......

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Categories: catalpa, nature, seasons,
Form: Imagism

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