Short Banyan Tree Poems

my childhood
banyan tree stands
grand father

02.05.2018...

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banyan tree
                            forgot about its roots
                            joint family...

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long hanging strands of
monarch butterflies on roots
of the banyan tree


Date: 08/26/2019...

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Bear with a banjo tree hugger
Beneath the Banyan tree
Barely beeps his bitterbugger
Beyond barley’s bruised knee....

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Yes I would be a giraffe if I could.
Walking proudly on an African plain
Eating leaves from the highest banyan tree
Flipping my idiotic looking tail...

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The  poor man turned away
from the gate of the temple
where people thronged to offer prayers

Yet he prostrated
before  a  small temple
at the foot of an  old banyan tree....

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Your eyes are so calm
like the shade of a Banyan tree on a midsummer day.
I feel soothed by looking at you,
but my thousands of words are less to portray.
From your eyes, I can't move my gaze.
I love to lose my way into your eye's maze....

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The Banyan Tree

The banyan tree stands tall,
come rain or mighty squall,
it rests, serene,
but never unseen,
its branches guarding us all.

BITE SIZE POEM no29 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Date: 6th December 2021...

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A spotted leopard in a banyan tree,
Kept his yellow carnivore-ic eyes on me.
I knew better than to move fast or try to flee.
Big cats love a chase like Simon Legree.
His eyes narrowed, but I refused to see.
How fast that cat was chasing after me.
If I can just get to that tall tall…....

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There is a huge and old 
Banyan tree in front of 
The temple in my village 
Sitting beneath it 
At every morning is 
My habit now 
But the devotees of the temple 
Visit me too 
As they think I am a GOD 
They offer me many things 
In fact I am unemployed 
And decided to consume them 
Just for a living. 




spirituality is very easy to sell...

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My supreme lord
If ever wish you gift me
With a next birth
Never as a human again
Bless me then as a Banyan Tree
Giving shadow and shelter for many
Many lovers may meet and talk
Beneath me
Many kids may gather and play
Beneath me
I can feel and realize then
The true meaning of love
I can feel and realize then
The true meaning of affection ....

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Like a Banyan Tree, 
my roots (seeking rebirth),
from eldest, outstretched limbs, descend
to a heartening earth.

Like a Banyan Tree
on hilltop with grand stance,
love from embossed gold earth and sky,
shall help my soul's expanse.

Spirit rustles arches
of my highest leaves.
Life flows through my core,
my dawns, my days, my eves.


6/21/15...

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once I saw a girl
beneath the shadow of Banyan tree, Ramna Park;
I fell in love with her;
I couldn't tolerate her out of my sight

once I felt
I sucked her,
drank her blooming honey
and I biologically gratified myself;

once I gave her freedom to her abysmal gloomy path

Now I understand; it was lust, not my love 




-Monday, June 17, 2019 Chattogram...

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Under the Banyan Tree

Underneath the banyan tree
Eating lunch so peacefully
What was that that dripped on me

Wet on shoulder, hip and knee
No one else – no, only me
Wondering what it could be 

Looking up into the tree
No care that all of us could see
From lifted leg so gracefully

Yes there I was in old San Juan
Underneath the devil’s spawn
When suddenly I’m peed upon

Iguana pee...

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Feel the ambience grand,
Old boughs spread a charm;
New era greets span,
Dreams in gracious psalms.
Blessings from old times,
Affluence spreads new trace;
Note sensorial chimes,
Yield blessings of grace;
An old friend my dear,
Now calmly awaits.
Truth and trust find cheer,
Reach a deeper fate;
Embrace stillness here,
Explain wonders dear.




Leon Enriquez
23 February 2015
Singapore...

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I’ve walked	
	Many a mile
Since every Rainbow’s End
	Was just a wish away 
Every pot of gold
	Has stayed a wish ahead
I’ve walked 
	Many a mile
Through smoke-filled haze
	And alcoholic daze
		Melody now gone
	From lonesome cities
I took no time
	To listen then
Now I’ll sit a while 
	By the Banyan Tree 
		Draw its cosmic force
	Replenish my spirit
		My energy
	Journey on to
		Find hope at
			The
		Rainbow’s End
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I’ve walked	
	Many a mile
Since every Rainbow’s End
	Was just a wish away 
Every pot of gold
	Has stayed a wish ahead

I’ve walked 
	Many a mile
Through smoke-filled haze
	And alcoholic daze
		Melody now gone
	From lonesome cities

I took no time
	To listen then

Now I’ll sit a while 
	By the Banyan Tree 
		Draw its cosmic force
	Replenish my spirit
		My energy

	Journey on to
		Find hope at
			The
		Rainbow’s End
...

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While resting under the shade
of a tree a traveller thought,
god was a stupid designer
as he gave
pumpkin-like large fruits
to the creeping plants,
weak, lean and light,
but grape-like small fruits
to the trees,
like the Banyan tree
he was lying beneath,
so strong, heavy and huge!

And he fell asleep
in the cool breeze that blew.

When he came to consciousness
he found himself covered
by lakhs of fruits.

He thence ran to a Temple anon!...

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To a learned philosopher
Or to a logical thinker
The gesture of this lone lady
Wrapping linens around this tree
Might look like a modern madness
Or drabness rooted on slackness...
Only one with a heart love-filled
Could feel her longing unfulfilled
Bearing children; rearing gladly
Owing barrenness, stilled sadly
She, hence, prays to this banyan tree
Age-old sign of fertility
To make her life absolute whole 
And fill with gladness, her sad soul…


31 January 2022...

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big old banyan tree
                                        twisted hanging vines ear rings
                                                  elegant with dress

                                                  branches to the up
                                       bowing down to the earth's world
                                                  patience's example



                         For Contest: 101 in a ROW contest -7  
                        Sponsored by: PD...

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Memories sway away
Like calendar is torn off 
Page by page
Day by day
But
Memories can be recycle
Till fresh and complete
Not torn like the calendar forever
A day off from the calendar you feel sad
Because you're losing some more time
But a pinch from the memories
You feel happy
Because you are gaining back 
Some time from the past
Whenever I remember her
As though she is still alive
And we are playing hide and seek
Under a big banyan tree
During happy childhood
55 years ago...

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1

The evening calm,
At distance.. close,
Where thoughts have ceased,
As hearing heeds,
The anxious mind has found its place,
To rest awhile and set sail..

2

Love is limp in ways
Settling at one's caress,
Holding tight our potted hearts;
Like a child pulling a cart ,
As the summers still young,
With the birds welcome..

3

Cradling a basket,
Carrying a racket,
The hand shows three.
A picnic by the banyan tree,
A picnic by the banyan tree,
Is where i most crave to be.....

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