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Mahogany Tree Poems - Poems about Mahogany Tree

The Other World

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In mystic forest, where human wisdom fades,
A world of secrets, beyond our mortal shades.
The forest whispers truths, we've yet to grasp,
As ancient trees stand guard, with mysteries to clasp.
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Categories: mahogany tree, anxiety, conflict, courage, mystery,
Form: Ballad

Crescent Silver

...Cloaked figure approached - voice of death it spoke;
“Your moments come,” manifests scythe from smoke.
Each step bereft your pulsates, dirge of a malodorous,
bittersweet symphonies requiem of the ...
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Categories: mahogany tree, dark,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberBreathe

...Breathe Again
Did I truly accumulate years of experience, or were they merely years of monotonous repetition? The echoes of my past reverberate, etching pain into the fabric of my love life and work...
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Categories: mahogany tree, abuse, age, allah, allusion,
Form: Free verse

The old wonderer

...In your latter days you had a good life
You sat under the mahogany tree near your hut
Watching the village as they moved about with their duties.
At night you were a storyteller
Telling the peopl...
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Categories: mahogany tree, death, eulogy, grief, imagery,
Form: Free verse

The Antelope and the Mahogany Tree

...It looked lost and lonely, 
Probably searching for its kind, 
Will hope aid it to find? 
Its home seems to have been invaded. 

The tree is bare and naked, 
It displays feeble boughs, 
It seek...
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Categories: mahogany tree, animal, nature, tree,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium MemberBreathe Again

...Did I really have years of experience? 
or years of daily repeats. Repeats definitely 
then I must indeed say 

 my confidence has suffered. 

My experiences come with pain, 

In my love life...
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Categories: mahogany tree, absence, abuse, addiction, age,
Form: Dramatic Verse

I Am Poetry

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 I am poetry  a nightingale stringing blues 
               Of medieval lyrics---swords sliding bows.
                            lyrics whose broken tones, 
can't be rewritten, of blood fe...
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Categories: mahogany tree, age, bird, child, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Fishing With Dad

...Florida Everglades Wind by Mark Mazzarella



Trolling over the deep backwaters of the Everglades, 
turtles snapped and alligators sunned on banks, still as statues....
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Categories: mahogany tree, dad, fishing, memory, tribute,
Form: Free verse

The Garden That Lives On

...The 
        old house
   from my memories 
 opens to a wide porch
adorned by mom with her 
loving touch.Herbs,flowers 
swayed to caressing breeze
 Lilies in pink, roses in blue
  and bougain...
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Categories: mahogany tree, garden,
Form: Concrete

Utopia

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Spellbound inside a castle of light
 Twinkling stars on tapestries outside
  Emerald horses flying in ecstasy
   Plum mulberry sunset curling in violet sunrise
    Galaxies ensnare bubbling...
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Categories: mahogany tree, heaven,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Tree, In the Corner of the Woods

...The Tree, In The Corner of The Woods


That tree, in the corner of the woods?

The one that peers' over the top in a valley,
high off the cliffs ridge just over there, Blue Hills.

The joyous...
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Categories: mahogany tree, appreciation, dedication, extended metaphor,
Form: Narrative

Haiku

...haiku

majestic
mahogany tree - 
my old bed


04-29-2018

Contest:      haiku - Trees - 3-5-3
Sponsor:     Mick Talbot
Placement:   1st...
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Categories: mahogany tree, nature, tree,
Form: Haiku

Catch the Right Worm

...(A reply to “The phenomenal woman” by Abul Mayen, “Hope John”)

This breezy morning
I have caught the right worm
Basking on a rock like a lizard
She twirled her waist in her briskly walk
A mile...
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Categories: mahogany tree, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Have Divided My Tears Into Section

...I divided my tears into section
With each drop, with each snuffle
With each tissue: I thread
I remembering the good times we shared
Yesterday, was your birthday
today: it’s my revelation:   I  h...
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Categories: mahogany tree, allegory, assonance, change, character,
Form: Concrete

Silent Witness

...In the land of eternity
At Elflame, 
Where the nymphs lived
Grew a giant mahogany tree

Memories rely on its every leaf
Reddish-brown trunks, 
Darkens over time
Silent witness of the elapsed days...
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Categories: mahogany tree, time,
Form: Free verse

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