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Life Changing
In these quiet woods, as shadows spread,
Timorous leaves whisper my secrets to the breeze.
A sentinel of time I am among the malus trees.
My roots run deep in my seed’s homestead.
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I stir under the warm sun anew.
My blossoms blooming bouquets of pink petals fair,
I stand in beauty, unaware.
Unbidden but welcome, Spring has made its debut.
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My branches grow branches, my leaves bear blades.
The bees buzzing come, a swarming tinnitus hum,
My stigma swipes their pollen, my honey glands reward their plumb.
Such is the dance of life, out of sight, in the shade.
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Sated with Spring and Summer, exhaustion nears,
Pink petals pass. Unadorned leaves leave their color green for brown
And softly, gently, resignedly, flutter down,
Dumb in their final moments in the breeze’s tears.
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Myself, in those moments, stark and bare, I ponder life.
Its fleeting fare seems awkwardly unfair to the fruit I bore, the leaves I shed,
My issue are now numbered among the dead.
But my roots still run deep, insulated from the strife.
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A sentinel of stone I am among the malus trees.
Categories:
malus, change, identity, nature, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Have you seen, have you ever seen an apple;
Make sweet love to a honey bee;
Before you see;
It's beautiful ;
The insertion;
of it's proboscis,
In the Apple's mesocarp-endocarp heart;
Kissing it!
Absorbing it!
Ooh, ahh, yum!
Delicious juices;
Sap so precious;
Ooh, so delicious;
Vitamins B's high amount of C's blessed;
Sweet Anthophila
Kisses and loves Malus Domestica;
Ooh, yum my darling, (sweet)
5/15/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
Categories:
malus, analogy, food, funny love,
Form: Free verse
If ironic is in volt sound thunder would not cash aid,
Wind pour thunder crackers,
Sit among a tunnel invest among a car,
Scent bitter sweet frost among tree for a cost,
News to a paper give it wet weather,
Sit among a tunnel invest among a car,
Hate among a tree let the apples elope,
Circle among the breeze and let split in half and,
If warmer the juice then sweeter the berry,
One could make pie and take the seeds and,
Make a blossom of forest mix with Malus pumila and Arbutus unedo,
And if Paris freeze and Autumn leaves shower and,
Sit among a tunnel invest among a car,
Marriage proposal let be know as Amount the cash,
Now that is picture perfect.
Categories:
malus, art, love,
Form: Verse
a malus in fruit
bearing tiny red apples
tempting the parrots
arriving en masse
emerald green twenty eights
in feasting frenzy
The "twenty-eight parrot" (Barnardius zonarius semitorquatus) found in south-west West Australia, has a black head, a green patch on the belly.
Destroyer A Poet ~Contest Name any Haiku will do
Margaret Foster: Sept 2011
Categories:
malus, nature, green,
Form: Haiku
A Filipino
Is like Malus Pumila
Cutting it
Into halves
You’ll find two stars, glowing
For the elegance of its tree, cheerfully
Piping wind songs
To charm
Your daily existence
Categories:
malus, people
Form: Lyric