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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.


Rest
Time 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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© John Conde  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, death of a



Psithurism
There 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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Categories: extended metaphor, fate, fire,

Premium Member A Memory Tree For Milton
A 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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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elegy, eulogy, memorial,

Premium Member Adieu
Howl 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 Enhancers
A 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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Categories: introspection,



Elocution To Bitter Cola Iii
Why 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,

Premium Member Elegy, Anniversary of My Fathers Funeral
9/22/1983

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 Translation
This 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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Categories: elegy, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor,

I Lost All
I 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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Categories: 12th grade, africa, dark,

Premium Member Deep Indigo Mourning
My 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 Translation
Lament 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 Sorrow
I 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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© Vicky Bain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angst, conflict, dark, sorrow,

What a World, For Chinua Achebe
What 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 Panther
The 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 Translation
Archaic 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,


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