Ficus Poems

The Last Valentine

...A sultry Sunday afternoon at Shady Acres, unseasonably warm for February. Outside not a breath of air stirs. Heat, a shimmering wall, rises from a blacktopped circular drive. Sprinklers spray, and wa...

Categories: ficus, age, valentines day,
Form: Narrative

Fig Tales

...Ficus fracas
Benjamina
What a little prig!

Time to chop
you mallaprop;
Can’t produce a fig!

Righteous ficus 
Carica
never be discountin’

Grabbed that little
benjie snot, and
drowned ...

Categories: ficus, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Ficus Fracas

...two ficus trees…

   fighting… a full-bore fracas…

     one malled the other



   ______________________
   After reading Jeff Kyser's 
   masterpiece, 'Mall Tree,' I
   was singularly i...

Categories: ficus, conflict, silly, tree,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Mall Trees

...the ficus mall tree
    wishes it was in the wild ~
        shopping stores online...

Categories: ficus, nature,
Form: Haiku

Tree Which Offered Shade

...those powerful hands, embodying strength, offering a refuge, 
          the determined voice which carried assurance to fearful souls....
    a banyan tree stretching its branches to provide shade ...

Categories: ficus, memory, remember,
Form: Free verse

Lived and Learnt

...1/23/21


I lived and learnt

Will I ever lift this curse?

I offer many gifts to Earth

It either did or didn't work

I ended up in last place or finished first

Got so much to do, befo...

Categories: ficus, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Sunrise To Sunset Shadows

...Sunrise mingles with the clouds
     Casting shadows on the hills
          As song birds break the silence
               With their melodic morning trills.

Spring rain has now subsided
  ...

Categories: ficus, beautiful, mountains, nature, sun,
Form: Rhyme

India's National Treasure

...You are the pride of a nation
revealing the beauty of it's people
you reflect a nation's heart, mind, and soul
more brilliantly than pavo cristatus...

With grace and agility
you embody...

Categories: ficus, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Ficus Benjamina

...Oh my dear Ficus Benjamina tree...
Your lovely limbs have harbored me from sun.
We picnic on the green grass in your shade
And watch our grandkids play so gleefully.

I can remember when you wer...

Categories: ficus, beautiful, family, joy, tree,
Form: Rhyme

A Labyrinthine Passage

...It was oneness, 
which brought my poetry 
in the folds of autumn.

From words apart 
you want to talk in space 
for transparent signs.

The city sleeps 
in morning mist, without 
opening th...

Categories: ficus, art,
Form: ABC

Sparkle

...Ficus elastica:
Rubber tree antique;
Living monument

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Anniversary greetings
Gratitude celebrates;
Joy cherished

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Each moment brings
Memory momentos;
Blessings ...

Categories: ficus, beauty,
Form: Haiku

Silent Prayers

...The hand comes out of the
rubble to throw
the musky odor
of a cross-legged
monk
under the ginkgo tree.

An apparition comes
outside the body of a fan-shaped snake;
ignites the wolf.
We were hungry,we...

Categories: ficus, art,
Form: ABC

Wood Pigeon's Nest

...My Ficus Benjamin grew very large
“That tree needs pruned back,’ says dad, taking charge
Out come the ladder, the lopper and prop.
He climbs up through the branches, right to the top.
He lops...

Categories: ficus, nature,
Form: Light Verse