The Kissing Tree - Human Nature
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Spring is the best time of the year for this old crabapple tree. Winters are too lonely and summers too hot. Autumn is nice but people prefer the lake or forest trails. But spring always brings vis...
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Categories:
crabapple, poetry,
Form: Haibun
My Valley
...My Valley
Tucked away in the north-central part of the state, about ten miles or so from where the clear and slow-moving water of the Grand River mixes with the quickly rolling mud of the Missouri...
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Categories:
crabapple, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Fresh As May
...I was born in everlasting springtime, as happenstance often does to others,
Like natural green halls wherein joy sings, to its wilder sisters and brothers.
I was situated in mellowed sunshine, li...
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Categories:
crabapple, beauty, fantasy, flower, joy,
Form: Couplet
Laurie's Favorite Tree Is Blooming
...Laurie’s favorite tree is blooming,
And cold is in the air,
Crabapple blossoms, pink like kisses,
And I can only stare.
How long now has it been my Love,
Who made days blossom bright?
Since you...
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Categories:
crabapple, appreciation, longing, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Big Crabapple
...The Big Crabapple has a new lease
Since the squeaking wheel gets all the grease
Ventilators galore
And still they want more
For Trump's tax obligations to cease...
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Categories:
crabapple, political,
Form: Limerick
Gone With the Wind
...Areola of rose,
blushing,
blossoming,
promising
The thorny-stem whistles
thirsty
posthaste
vain...
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Categories:
crabapple, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
crabapple, flower, summer, sweet, tree,
Form: Haiku
Little Red Apples
...Not a leaf left on the crabapple tree
instead little red apples hang
like ornaments on a Christmas tree.
Little red apples that spend
most of the winter covered with snow
waiting for the robi...
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Categories:
crabapple, fruit,
Form: Blank verse
Song of Green Rebirth
...Tiny crabapple feet ply the soft, fertile earth
new moment of soil floods his open, seeking face
each day the child learns a song of green rebirth.
He beckons to the willow; wonders at her girth...
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Categories:
crabapple, baby, beautiful, childhood, earth,
Form: Villanelle
The Wonder of You
...At first I thought you were just being nice
To make a good impression on a first date.
"Her true self needs time to break the ice,"
I thought as we talked until it was late.
I saw you again, bu...
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Categories:
crabapple, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Note Left On Leaves
...Reposed in the ghost of light below the dell
Where brunette pine needles and thirsty oak leaves dwell,
The wind hisses in the canopy
Delivering dreams from the crabapple tree:
The cotton white petal...
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Categories:
crabapple, death, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
My Mother
...My Mother is silly;
She fell in love with Billy,
And they went to Italy
Where it was chilly.
They became married
And my Mother carried
Some berries,
To make crabapple stew!...
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Categories:
crabapple, funnymother,
Form: I do not know?
One, Two, Three, Four
...Try as I might....I could not get it right
Small fingers that stretched over the chipped ivory whites
While scrunching her face, with that crabapple frown
She would tap out the beat, with her eyes...
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Categories:
crabapple, childhood, dedication, sound,
Form: Narrative
Who Dines This Night
...Snow swirling in winter air
birds take to crabapple tree in limbs
shaking the fruit everywhere
Red now spread upon blanket of white
still none view the snowcat in sight
carefully she creeps th...
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Categories:
crabapple, animals, imagination, life, on
Form: Free verse
One, Two, Three, Four......
...Try as I might,...I could not get it right
My small fingers that fumbled over the ivory whites
While scowling her face with that crabapple frown
One, two, three, four...one, two, three four...., h...
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Categories:
crabapple, childhood, dedication, music
Form: Rhyme
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