Some mornings my locks are in place
but other times tis froze
as a plane tree blooms at the base
then different days are flowers from when I rose
So splendid until I replace my shirt
I have no inkling why that would matter
it's comparable to an unironed bed skirt
not so as the mirror would shatter
I do not work anymore
and my husband is retired
in regard to my employment I walked out the door
but we're secure and inspired
I relish laying down on my couch
while he sits in his computer chair
I'm there now though not a slouch
yet tonight I don't have tousled hair
Categories:
plane tree, humor, life,
Form: Rhyme
The wild hair of the trees
lay down on the ground.
Others burn up in a blue smoke.
The severed branches in small heaps.
I saw, in the middle of the sawdust,
The pieces of the great plane tree,
Where we carved our names.
The drawn heart, smiled at me,
Even with its sap tears,
the wounded sapwood
a kind of last farewell.
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La chevelure sauvage des arbres
s'est couchée sur le sol.
D'autres se consument
en fumées bleues.
Les branches sectionnées en petit tas.
J'ai vu, au milieu de la sciure,
Les billots du grand platane,
Où nous avions gravés nos noms.
Le cœur dessiné, me souriait,
Même avec ses larmes de sève,
d'aubier blessé,
en une sorte de dernier adieu.
Categories:
plane tree, allusion, first love, heart,
Form: Free verse
Printing the last page of the third revision
as if clearing out the last of the roaches
from the kitchen of my heart.
I feel like a bird singing from the top
of a plane-tree on a bright sunny day.
Singing a dainos of love.
Writing a poem without thinking why.
Typing with a blinking curser that
only blinks when I pause to think.
The end of a semester is invigorating,
charged with knowledge, inspired by
new thoughts and ideas.
I feel like a phoenix taking flight
again on a new journey, to
write, read, create, love and laugh.
Categories:
plane tree, education
Form: Free verse
a plane tree from the east-
outspans the days of man
Categories:
plane tree, life, nature
Form: Monoku
A falling
Autumn leaf
from the giant
Plane tree
trampled into the concrete
then washed
to the sea.
Categories:
plane tree, life,
Form: Free verse