Sequoia
Born to a land unspoiled and free
The mighty sequoia was on the ascendancy
Ancient elders stood erect and proud
Free from threats to pierce a cloud
Out of nowhere came a destructive presence
Little creatures with a cold, dark luminescence
So naive to think I’d thrive forever
Not anticipating this new dawn of endeavour
They tunnelled through a living tree
Without any care
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Categories:
sequoia, change, death, farewell, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Sequoia
The coldness of Winter
The loss and the burn
Seems hopelessly barren
And makes our hearts churn.
The stillness and quiet.
Anticipation seems long.
But this Season's for waiting,
Growing roots deep and strong.
So when this is over
In the warm Springtime breeze
We'll find it was worth it;
For the tallest of trees.
And the fruit of our labour,
Our patience. Our
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Categories:
sequoia, allah, bible, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Silly Sequoia Smirks
silly sequoia smirks
gulping lusty lurch
bounty breeze bears
callous crest's peer :
haughty hankering hoists
felon fate's foiled
busty bellow blush
under taunted touch
airy atmosphere crush
dark dances drool
moaning melody brood
pulsing punctured pool
sequoia helpless be
feelings spell grip.
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Categories:
sequoia, allegory,
Form: Sonnet
A Sequoia Tree
A monumentally tall, flame-resistant tree;
Sequoia can achieve heights of between 150 and 280 feet,
Elevations no other tree can reach.
Qualifying it to be the world’s tallest living organism,
Unparalleled in nature's kingdom.
One of the oldest life forms on the planet
Individual trees are known to be over 3,000 years old,
And it's believed some have lived
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Categories:
sequoia, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Acrostic
Sequoia
(Poem included in the Poems of Yosemite chapbook.)
Ineffable –
Still, I write these lines
trite.
A scaffold of words
which whence removed
casts only a silence
of long shadows.
To you, the paradigm
of
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Categories:
sequoia, nature, time, tree,
Form: Free verse
Sequoia
All it is a giant tree
But it brims with beauty
And majesty
It is truly awe inspiring thing to see
In ancient Britain they believed heaven is down not up in the sky
Sequoia is tall enough to reach the sky
Where birds will fly
But its roots deep in earth will lie
It is like the gateway between earth and heaven
Or
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Categories:
sequoia, fantasy, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Nature Portraits - Mountain, Sequoia, Sunset, Thunderstorm, Waterfall
The grandeur of a majestic mountain
standing proud against the horizon
with its snow-capped peak
enveloped in fleecy white clouds
against a clear azure blue sky
The glorious majesty of a stately sequoia
towering above the surrounding vegetation
being the largest living thing on earth
its massive trunk over thirty feet wide
with its gnarled rugged beauty
The wondrous artistry of the setting sun
edging the
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Categories:
sequoia, beauty, mountains, nature, storm,
Form: Free verse
The Mighty Sequoia
In celebration of Earth Day I am posting
The Mighty Sequoia
I began my life as a tiny sprout
In 1500 BC; now I'm a Giant Sequoia Tree.
I grew and grew then stalwart loomed,
At 1323 BC, the year King Tut became entombed.
I spread my limbs in a skyward plea
As the Great Wall of China begins in 221
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Categories:
sequoia, life, nature,
Form: Personification
The Sequoia
oh! how the winter wind howls
- like coyotes in the cold of night
at the seemingly solitaire pale moon
set high above
in the black velvet sea,
holding the twinkles from wishes
standing tall - proud
the mighty sequoia
does not waver in its
most monstrous of gusts
but instead rises,
and reaches for the majestic gem
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Categories:
sequoia, nature
Form: Free verse
Sequoia Sempervirens
Tall
Tree
Planted
By stream grows
Tallest so it seems
Sends out roots shallow they grow far
Away sixty feet helps to support the tree in wind
One tree could not stand alone but needs support system of others depends on many more
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Categories:
sequoia, allegory, family, friendship, imagination,
Form: Fibonacci