Poplar Tree Poems - Poems about Poplar Tree

A Sad Farewell

..."The clouds parted like the pursed lips of desire".


After many cold winters, they met again, 
Under the poplar tree on a starry moonlit night.
Though they had planned it over many a time,
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A Poor, Wayfaring Man of Grief

..."The evidence of yesterday,
Is what we disallow,
The future is a better way,
To live our lives right now."
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A poor, wayfaring man of grief,
Hath passed me on my ...

Star-Crossed Lovers

...After many cold winters, they met again, 
Under the poplar tree on a starry moonlit night.
Though they had planned it over many a time,
It came to fruition after such long lapse of yea...

Flower Garden

...In hay-sweet evening air, crimson reds dotted around.  Beautiful scented flowers on the ground.
The poplar tree sways in the summer grace, it's such a heavenly place.
Swathes of bluebells thick and...

Under a Poplar Tree

...Wan and weary in sultry heat
he walked on and on through dust and dirt
off the bustling street, looking for a shade

Paving his way through by lanes
at last reached a quiet spot,
fu...

Like a Poplar Tree

...Alone I'm standing; a tall poplar tree
With many of my kind alongside me
All standing here in solidarity 
Together as one when we need to be. 

There are times when we need to be alone 
To ...

No Strange Fruit After Strange Fruit

...After Strange Fruit

Old Mrs. Betty Brown sat me down today,
Made me listen to an old singer 
named Billie Holiday. As we listened, I observed
the tears swelling in her eyes. “Black bodies swing...

Work In Progress

...A young man I used to be
As I muse beneath this poplar tree
We are dust and nothing more
Exiles from a distant shore
A fallen leaf from the tree of life
Given to excess and so easy to entice

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A Turn of the Hourglass

...III

Once a pilgrim bound for a distant land
Was standing at the parting of three ways,
He asked a crone which, the right hand,
The left or middle way led before day’s
End to the hospice lying ...

Summer Music

...SUMMER MUSIC

                    a morning bird
             singing in a poplar tree
                comments endlessly


                  her happy chatter
        riding a warm southern ...

Old Trees

...The brush which paints the sky each day
Has also drawn the distant hills
Where many flowers bloom in May
And nature offers verdant thrills. 

A playful child once sought the shade
Of an old oak...

Teenage Dream

...I dream this everlasting dream
Where I am her and she is she
We're so much younger than we seem
Completely alive in the audience of we

She is the senior captain of the soccer team
I'm just a l...

My Pyramid

...When wind blows through poplar tree
One can sense time in all its majesty
In all its glory
But also perhaps in all its possibility

Something evolving in bubble of no existence 
With evolution ...

Ballad of the Poplar

...Tall and magnificent is poplar tree
But about its visage is something eerie
Poplar sways in the wind nearby a great sea
Poplar is tall but can’t reach the edge of sky anymore than to see

Past t...

About That What Wind Sings

...Wind blows through tall poplar tree
Mind contemplates time in all its beauty
Man knows he will not live for eternity
But his soul that that very mind reflects end of time will see

Consciousness...

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