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Cottonwood Poems - Poems about Cottonwood

Premium Member The Cottonwood Poet
Poems are much like cottonwood seeds, Filling the air as they float in the breeze. We hope our efforts find fertile soil And our seeds take root, rewarding our toil. Exposed and vulnerable, they may never land Or they may be clutched in a grateful hand. We send them by faith, our deepest expressions Hoping they land and yield fruitful impressions. Keep sowing...

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Categories: cottonwood, allegory, faith, poets,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Grandma Cottonwood
Grandmother Cottonwood’s leaves glistened. Shaking their silver sides against the breeze. Glossy and pointedly sculpted, a few listened. As her main twig rolled up his sleeve. I had not seen a talking tree since Babes in Toyland. Expected some marching and a mariachi band. The woods were unnaturally quiet and stark still. North wind providing a coldish autumn chill....

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Categories: cottonwood, tree,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Cottonwood
pink catkins of eastern cottonwood- happy offspring tree flowering in the sun- beaver waits patiently moon shines upon her coral blossoms- cricket chirps ...

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Categories: cottonwood, appreciation, nature, poems, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Late Autumn Naked Are the Cottonwood Trees-
Naked are all the cottonwood trees Arms are limbs waving leaves hands Shaken clapping falling to the ground ~ Over November's plight bleached nights Images surroundings bright-white Icy spears hangs off houses roof tops ~ Temperatures spiral continue to drop Snow shovel the snow it covers the streets Plow the debris that nature leaves ~ Environment is quiet the sky's and grounds are So white everything...

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Categories: cottonwood, absence, autumn, death, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Cottonwood
Many years have passed, many a day gone at length. Since that delta farm and that old pump from which I drank. Its water clear and cool flowing from a spring, gone, are those faded years yet, to the memories, I cling Now, only thoughts of those long fields from the cottonwood tree where I rest, That summer sun on...

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Categories: cottonwood, farewell, farm, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mighty Cottonwood-
In my neighborhood mighty high cottonwood trees leaves big as man hand ~ mighty strong long tall aged minimum rings 30 old high as mountain top ~ mighty cottonwood rising high above other trees firm strong and mighty 11/9/21 Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Categories: cottonwood, analogy, tree,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Stellar Cottonwood Before God-
centered cottonwood gracious leaves waves, where tree stands, stellar before God 8/29/21 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©...

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Categories: cottonwood, appreciation, sky, tree,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Stars and the Cottonwoods
He loved the stories his Grandpa would tell when he’d visit him on the reservation…his favorite story…the one he’d always ask for…was about the stars…and their creation. “The stars form secretly in the Earth”, Grandpa would begin, as he set him on his knee… “they drift under the surface until they find the roots of the...

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Categories: cottonwood, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nebraska Autumn Cottonwood Trees-
Tall cottonwood tree it is leafy and solid with falling broad leaves and many awesome branches as it drools letting go leaves 10/17/20 James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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Categories: cottonwood, analogy, imagery, tree, tribute,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Mighty Autumn Cottonwood
Mighty Autumn Cottonwood lustrous bright green windbreaks shadow providing leaves as wide as a hand waving trees asset in wildlife PENSEE Poetry Form 9/28/19 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2019...

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Categories: cottonwood, analogy, appreciation, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Cottonwood Tree
perfect mate nearby wind scatters cottony tufts- a summer snowfall 8/20/2019 Howmanysyllables 5-7-5 Poetry Contest: Tree Themed Haiku Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin...

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Categories: cottonwood, summer, tree,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Cottonwood
pink catkins of eastern cottonwood- happy offspring tree flowering in the sun- beaver waits patiently moon shines upon her coral blossoms- cricket chirps ...

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Categories: cottonwood, animal, appreciation, beauty, earth,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Cottonwood Leaves
fluffing silver leaves cottonwood steadies herself glittering my heart....

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Categories: cottonwood, nature, tree,
Form: Kimo
Premium Member We Hid In the Cottonwood Tree
We hid in the cottonwood tree’s magic treehouse. Spying on our neighbors. Laughter rang out occasionally from the windows of some of their houses. We clutched our stomachs and laughed. Mr. Pete gave his wife a big hug at their house. We all went, Oh, yucky! We were eleven, and loved the height of our tree mansion. Feeling like detectives, or FBI...

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Categories: cottonwood, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poplar Cottonwood Haiku-
Poplar Cottonwood haiku- songbirds nest courtships mice, rabbits, deer eat bark leaves mighty Cottonwood broad triangular cotton-like seeds grows 139 foot tree are those leaves 6 inches poplar Cottonwood tallest trees in Nebraska great plains Cottonwood 4/29/18 written words by James Edward Lee Sr. Copyright © 2018 From anthology “Sound Track For My Life” 2018©...

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Categories: cottonwood, animal, appreciation, bird, community,
Form: Haibun

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