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Catalpa Poems - Poems about Catalpa

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...

Categories: catalpa, myth, nature, tree,
Form: Rhyme

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 ...

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

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'...

Categories: catalpa, analogy, appreciation, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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 ...

Categories: catalpa, cat,
Form: Rhyme

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...

Categories: catalpa, june, tree,
Form: Rhyme

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...

Categories: catalpa, appreciation, bereavement, tree,
Form: Narrative

Haiku - Catalpa

...catalpa -

          fronds as grand green spades...

                    orchid strands




~ 2nd Place ~  in the "Haiku - Trees" Poetry Contest, Mick Talbot, Sponsor....

Categories: catalpa, beauty, nature, tree,
Form: Haiku

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...

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...

Categories: catalpa, nature, tree, tree,
Form: Quatrain

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...

Categories: catalpa, devotionold, love, old,
Form: Rhyme

Indian Bean

...Wind
rustles
through the yard-
the catalpa
chimes....

Categories: catalpa, nature, seasons,
Form: Imagism