Short Beeches Poems

Beeches shed leaves galore
Leaf mould on the forest floor-
Composting bionomics
As winter melanges the mix...

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Beeches
and blue-bells,
wych-elm and yew-
nature conserved from me
and you
Beeches
and blue-bells,
wych-elm and yew-
nature reserved for me
and you


Inspired by our local Chilterns Area of Natural Beauty...

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Silent beeches.
 Beckleigh beeches.
 Great temple beeches.
 Caw, caw, beeches.
 Childhood beeches.
 Country club beeches.
 Enveloping beeches.
 Belonging beeches.
 Memories beeches.
 Just where does the bark end 
           and the skin begin?...

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The beeches

Three queenly beeches on an English hill,
Tree spirits, sisters, who kept watch for centuries.
Root ridges cross and knit a wooden carpet;
Bare branches tangle, twist, and leave a mosaic,
Like stained glass windows, of pale April sky.


January 4, 2017
For contest Rooting for 8 to 5
Sponsored by nette onclaud
1st place...

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Hallows Eve to Candlemas,
the sun now turning south,alas;
November sombre,December dark,
January,February cold and stark.
Catkins litter the forest floor,
beeches shed their leaves galore.
Gales melange the mix,as decay brings 
nature's bionomics.
Hexagon pointed stars move and shift ,
into a patterned powdered drifts.
Rain filled days of slush and muck,
webs on shards of gossamer 
stuck.
Twilight months in winter shade 
until the snowdrops matamorphise 
in the glade....

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