If I Could Splice Two Trees Together
...If I were a horticulturalist like Sam Van Aken
I would splice a banana tree with a strawberry tree.
Strawberries are not tree-grown?
Okay.
Then I would splice a banana tree with a peanut tree.
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Categories:
pistachio tree, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Killing Stick
...The old man walks up the olive hill,
Iron bedrock washes out to sea,
A cleft splits the iron hill,
The valley blooms a pistachio tree,
The old man breaks the killing stick,
The point is ruddy an...
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Categories:
pistachio tree, creation, faith, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Rainbow Lorikeets
...a pair of
rainbow
Lorikeet birds
Spin free
as a Ferris wheel
Upon
the highest branch
In the garden of
a thousand eyes
from
their favorite olive green
Pistachio tree
Sun-bake hands ...
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Categories:
pistachio tree, imagination,
Form: Free verse