Tree Elegy Poems
These Tree Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Tree. These are the best examples of Elegy Tree poems written by international poets.
RestTime it catches up
To all of us I guess
You can try to avoid it
Or enjoy it like the rest
No matter what you try
Father time...
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death, death of a
PsithurismThere was a sickly tree
In a barren clearing
In a burning country
On a mourning day.
A wild crown of branches
Haloed by concentric rings;
A rising wave of spires...
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extended metaphor, fate, fire,
A Memory Tree For MiltonA joy it is to see
planted in his honor
A Memorial Tree
Roots, memories of Milton
and a kind act for the ecosystem
Forget-Me-Nots shall be written
by your poetry...
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elegy, eulogy, memorial,
AdieuHowl fir tree, the cedar is fallen
From this narrow lane of time,
from this uncertain strait and burdens
from these enclaves of wearying vanity fair,
from this...
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Categories:
death, faith, family, grief,
Space EnhancersA sign posted in front of the library tells of
no internet service available - good heavens what to do?
the rain has waned the sun is...
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introspection,
Elocution To Bitter Cola IiiWhy slaying the stars
& rigorously binding their light
for listening ears under the mango tree
to frame folktales for midnight song,
make a geysers of yellowstone
carrying fresh fetch...
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Categories:
grave, murder,
Elegy, Anniversary of My Fathers Funeral9/22/1983
I drove your shining,Cadillac, Daddy!
The lead car to the cemetery.
A stuffed bear, your Borsalino,
In the August, back window,fino!
You, in the hearse, a few feet behind..
Tears...
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Categories:
chicago, death, father daughter,
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie...
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elegy, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor,
I Lost AllI lost all my favorite
people to death/
that is why broken smiles sleep
on face/
that is why i am always lonely in a
room full...
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12th grade, africa, dark,
Deep Indigo MourningMy friend, how did he go so wrong?
Funny and jovial, was he, as happy as one can be.
Then, Paul shot his wife to death, mercilessly,...
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Categories:
abuse, christmas, death, memory,
William Dunbar: Lament For the Makaris TranslationLament for the Makaris ("Lament for the Makers/Poets")
by William Dunbar [c. 1460-1530]
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
i who enjoyed good health and gladness
am overwhelmed...
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Categories:
death, evil, fear, poets,
Sounds of SorrowI lost you one day while I was looking out.
All I could see was the fog from my window.
Where could you have gone with no...
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angst, conflict, dark, sorrow,
What a World, For Chinua AchebeWhat a World!
By Izunna Okafor
Tears roll down my cheeks
Beholding the palm tree I tapped
From his knowledge of blue ink
With a bow, lofting off a...
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Categories:
death,
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the PantherThe Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is...
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Categories:
elegy, allegory, analogy, animal, cat,
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk...
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Categories:
elegy, art, body, god, life,