Short Birch Tree Poems

Outside my window
birch tree in the summer sun
snow in summertime...

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Empty
nest box ,high
in my birch tree-
a pair if tits arrive
to see....

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exclamation point 
   where autumn ends…
    a cardinal perched
     -birch tree
         in new snow...

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nested firmly
between
the
birch tree branches
while
you 
can hear 
the 
sounds of
the
piccolo birds...

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                  a birch tree reaches
         for the bright blue sky above
                      a Robin sits still


Heidi Sands

4/14/24

(C)opyright...

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white keys of birch trees 
black keys of spruces and pines - 
music of twilight

8.20.2019
One Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Rick Parise
Syllables Per Line:	5 7 5...

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bare birch tree swaying
blizzard blows away branches ~
chiding chickadee


5th December 2022

For Tania Kitchin's "Winter Nature Themed Haiku" contest...

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Birch Tree in Early Spring

Every breath of wind
stirs the branches,
each 
with a drop of
yesterday’s rain,
frozen in the moment,
sparkling now in the sun, 
like a thousand diamonds,
and I,
I am dazzled....

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Wild be the feline
Up on a limb - wilderness
Habitats - endure


Trees planted in life
Prunes by a Scorpio - blooms
Leaves with Gemini



Life of a birch tree
Cultivate by signs - bark
Grows prunes prose no pain...

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Not so delicate
Scratchy surface of wood bark
Unlike plain paper

What we have to write
We put on the smooth surface
Of paper not bark

Very glamorous
Bark of a lovely birch tree
Best over paper

Russell Sivey...

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The bright white birch tree stood tall in the rain
Taking a stand against any pain
On gray dismal days, that may bring you down
Bringing light through the fog, to remove any frown
What a sight to see, this white birch tree
Bringing beauty and refuge in a reverie

Heidi Sands

11/30/22...

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Time begins again 
       When I look at the birch tree 
       Playing with crayons

   
       Oh, so sour apples
       To the wet ground falling leaves
       Old tree in the yard




       04.09.2014
       A-L Andresen :)

       Copyright © All Rights Reserved 

      - Thanks for my 3rd place in your contest, Francine :) -...

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Layer upon layer of copper leaves,  

Lay here, and all around.

As the birch tree lost it's canopy,

And carpeted the ground.

Beneath my feet, some ankle deep

Some falling through the air.

Autumn's gusts gathered strength,

And spread them, everywhere.

 



Entry for Autumn Colours Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by Nayda Ivette Negron
15/9/2017...

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Loving smile
Forgives my trespasses
Like waves erase the trampled sand clean

Gentle hands
Calloused like the Birch tree
Glide across my soft trembling landscape

Eyes sparkle
Like stars held in my heart
They carry your words without falling

Steadfast heart
Deep as the universe
Hold us safe in evening glow 

2/15-2021

Images in Parallel Universe Contest...

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dragged from grey waters
dragged from war's hungry mouth
there's a door on top of a birch tree

point me to the checquered carpets
on the roof of the albino hearse
point me to the playhouse building
where we can watch
noir movies on a saxophone
point me to the fireworks in the mist
and bury me up in the cellar
under the highway or the ocean floor
where fly riders turn
into floodraisers...

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flocks of sheep paused their grazing,
looked up to speak to me,
the bright moon kept watch,
like a big farm dog,
looking over a tall birch tree!
I condoned with their bleating, 
of their inhuman suffering,
heard their soul’s appeal!
the green meadow fed them,
from fresh goodness of its being,
knowing too well,
that this would be their last meal!

Imagist poetry contest
Brian Strand
Written 10/Dec/2020...

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Cover me with the haze of
Fragmented years,
Let me sleep through this autumn
Where rains greedily devour 
Dying leaves,
And streams flow into the rotten silence. 
 
Clothe me with the moss
Which grew in the wrinkles of the forehead,
Make me senseless for the cruel fingers of the northerly wind,
And the silver which dwells  
On Venus Hill,
 
Just leave my eyes naked
To count in them rings of the birch tree,
Which cut down
Our unmeasurable distance....

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A backdrop of orange gives birth to hues anew.  Singing it's praises 'pon the birch tree,
co-mingling with the shade beneath it's hanging branches and it's leaves so rusty brown.
creating variations no where else that could be found. 
Shining it's light over the yonder hills, obscuring shadows and forms, accentuating the
sienna grass some more, till the birch tree seems an orange blaze amidst an ocean conclave
that lives eternal in those that would dare remember it....

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Two slow-witted goblins were tricksters who had no fear
They tiptoed up the staircase of a birch tree that was near.

They forgot that owls can gobble you down in a minute.
Their plotting was horribly stupid, no matter how you spin it.

Let’s throw a snowball at that one, the dumbest one said.
Let’s!  Agreed the other, I think his name was Dolt Ed.

The owl was not happy when the snowball hit the back of his head.
And sure enough, within minutes both goblins were dead....

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She needs a new familiar, she is frightened of black cats.
This was told to them by a wizard named Charlie T. Matts.
No one believed it, for she was a powerful witch after all.
It is true, agreed a nonbeliever, seeing her hiding that fall.

She was behind a birch tree, as cats paraded by in masks.
Some of them were mealy mouthed, focused on their tasks.
They scare her to death the now believer told the others.
She needs to be straightened out said both of her grandmothers....

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steller's sea eagle
perching on frozen birch tree~
stargazing at dawn 


17 March 2022

Syllables checked at howmanysyllables.com

Bird Haiku Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin
1st place


Notes: Steller’s sea eagle, one of the world’s largest raptors, with a wingspan of nearly three meters. There are no more than 5,000 of these magnificent birds worldwide and nearly half the population congregates on the sea ice in Hokkaido, Japan each winter.(britanicca.com)...

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Spring marks the end of winter and start of summer
It is lovely with colorful contrasts
Norway is a long country with a lot of mountains and valleys
Wide variations in climate from south to north and from east to west

Migrant's return, and the first flower is coltsfoot
Both humans and animals awakened by hibernation with new energy
The sun is high, no snow falls and the birds singing
Small downy mouse ears to be leaves on birch tree







01.04.2016
A-L Andresen :)...

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