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Heartwood Poems - Poems about Heartwood

Vouves Olive Tree
...Vouves Olive Tree. (The olive tree of Vouves estimated to be over 3000 years old. Still producing delicious olives on the isle of Crete in Greece. The exact age of the tree can not be determined b......

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Categories: heartwood, food, green, miracle, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Fond Farewell
...Merry is the way you spin me around, its no hard sell Just you and I enjoying time on a two-person carousel I heard no sound when that heartwood tree fell Focused only on your sweet scents......

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Categories: heartwood, cute love, love, woman,
Form: Monorhyme



Top Secret
...The redwoods’ fairy ring, wall in a family secret Only, not all roots dig as deep… Parched, some shrivel, loosening the circlet Shush….the tallest ones whisper steep Elegance alas, the needy on......

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Categories: heartwood, allusion,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Spirits In the Wood
...Standing all alone in the woods; eyes shut, I feel the lilting light. Sun dodges needles through the crown, beams land on my skin softly so. Brisk breezes quicken and rustle. Bristlecone pines e......

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Categories: heartwood, death, earth, fantasy, sin,
Form: Free verse
Thin Skin of Life
...This world we inhabit, a giver of life That on the surface is so rife, Akin to a tree’s cross-section, A thin cambium bound by natural selection. The atmosphere the outer bark that protects L......

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Categories: heartwood, animal, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Springsound
...A flood of grackles, black-leafing the tree who seem to’ve forgot that its not Winter; it’s Spring and everything is about to flower. Eva says they are starling and they may be. She says t......

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Categories: heartwood, bird, nature, sound,
Form: Free verse
The Hollow Tree
...The hollow tree of a man, squirreling things away the best he can, ......

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Categories: heartwood, bereavement, death, desire, father
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rugged Path
...Traveler's Guide to the Rugged Path Millions tread the rugged path as nomads groping in a murky mist eyes and hands aloft; prayerful…hopeful. Few chance upon a wondrous tree, bearing......

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Categories: heartwood, allegory, change, christian, confusion,
Form: Free verse
In Heartwood Forrest
...Subtle comes the mourning In light laced with night Like concentric circles forming In the Forrest's biography of life For children grow in truth like trees It's lesson is wisdom's offering Spiral l......

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Categories: heartwood, courage, family, grief, tree,
Form: Quatrain
The Tree
...The Tree Frank Halliwell This ancient leafy giant that's endured three hundred years Seems to tremble as the chainsaw. through it's heartwood rips and tears. It stood t......

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Categories: heartwood, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
...Sprouted in soil, not rich nor poor surprisingly the seedling grows under the toughest conditions. Nature is false, though one may not believe- the burning in the blistering summer, the drowning in ......

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Categories: heartwood, boyfriend, emotions, father, girl,
Form: Free verse
Chestnut Blight
...As each fatigued day culls my nature Mine mind does Judas thee And tinker pon the waves of hope Muted Banshee My blighted roots once writhed hitherto Severed from earths comely breast Mother natures......

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Categories: heartwood, hope, nostalgia, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Xulon
...Small things were witness to genes of freak mutation. Tooth in eye becoming boat in blindness. Witch hazel fails to stop leakage. Thumb with beads of lymph stung high in stillness, wants t......

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Categories: heartwood, art
Form: I do not know?
Xulon
...Small things were witness to genes of freak mutation. Tooth in eye becoming boat in blindness. Witch hazel fails to stop leakage. Thumb with beads of lymph stung high in stillness, wants t......

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Categories: heartwood, life, love, peace, philosophy,
Form: ABC
Stradivairius
...Watch the rapt musician's hand Draw the bow across the strings. Hear the ancient violin, Oh, the melody it sings! Is the magic of its voice From the fiddle's maple heart? Is the secret in i......

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Categories: heartwood, art, history, music,
Form: I do not know?

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