Short Fig Tree Poems

You must recognize your season even if your season doesn’t recognize you!...

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midst trees-ovation 
pretty bride in umbrella ---
heavenly retreat


18 August 2022...

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the holy fig tree
Buddha sat by did not die ~
fig trees never die


10 November 2021...

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fig tree on round isle
forces imminent response
a round-eyed delight




2/26/2015...

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digging wildly deep
like South African fig tree ~
searching the Hades

16 November 2021...

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brown
monsoon 
her fig tree 
heart range 
leaves


7/1/19
written by James Edward Lee Sr.  ©2019...

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The budding fig tree,

knowest summer is nigh, so shall

be nigh, God's Kingdom


Date: 06/18/2019...

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The fig tree is without leaves
mercury down to sub-zero
as the heavens paint the earth white....

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Singing of birds come,
Voice of the turtle is heard.
Fig tree putteth forth.
Take us the foxes.
That spoil the tender grape vines.
The little foxes....

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A shelter for man and birds
With green mulberry-like leaves
Known for Zachaeus' salvation
When he met Jesus






For Francine Roberts' contest:'Flowers,Trees,Grass or Bees'...

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Almond tree leaves
The nutty professor
Fig tree is never confused
Which way the seasons turn
Almond tree leaves fall
Summer Miller Professor
Asks if we are in agreement
Well, I don't know now
Do I?...

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In a tear of morning
on the fig tree leaf

lies the dream about the bird without wings.
Bird who
sang the silence of aborted memories,
drunk the sweat of bedevilled paradise
and surrendered to drown

in a tear of morning
on the fig tree leaf....

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The full moon was
rising. November nght.
I throw away my walking stick.  

*

A shiver runs 
through my thoughts. 
I had lost you in the thick fog.

*

The large fig tree.
Had not tied the black thread 
round the big trunk ?


Satish Verma...

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Holy Heap said:
Buddha!
Holy Beads said:
Buddha!
Holy flowers, plants,
Holy atoms, elements
Holy disciples,
Holy of holies said:
Buddha!
Siddhartha’s 
Holy Fig Tree said:
Buddha!
Buddhism said:
Buddha!
But, Buddha said: 
I am not Buddha. 

06 June 2021...

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You,
celestial climber,
agile acrobat 
of the scrub pine.
You,
of the branch,
the thistle-fan grounded
in agoraphobia.
You,
for whom the fig tree 
swells purple
with passion,
I would have this
nothing and this
no one which
you "do not" have--
how provident
the world
of the squirrel....

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No flower on the fig tree
No grape on the vine
No fruit on the olive
Nor flock in the fold
No food in the fields
Neither herd in the stall.

Yet I will rejoice
Yes I will rejoice
Rejoice in the Lord
Rejoice in the Lord
Yes, joy in my God
My salvation!

Habakkuk 3: 17, 18. NKJV
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It must be springtime
for she lumbers by her nest
below the fig tree.

Hatchlings soon appear
to scamper into the sea.
She cries out to, "Watch

for eagles above!"
then turns away; her voice now
in praise of new life.


  
                     ... title inspired by The Song of Solomon 2:12...

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Its all useless why do I even try.
I spent hours of rolling tape on my bag,
So the anger stuffing will not fly.

I have this anger in me that I cannot explain,
Pain shoots up my back then tells my brain.
Calm as I can be thinking it’s the pills they feed me.
Little do they know It’s my broken spirit on a fig tree...

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-William Carlos Williams

For you
I hold out-
a figment of thought,

like a twig holds out juice
from the fig tree,

from branches, trunks
and roots, 
from the ground
and people draped
all around
like fallen fruit 
forgotten
by their trees

For you,
the day comes
the way it leaves

a taste of fig
that was never there...

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TREES
We grow bright and beautiful 
We strong like iroko
No matter how we are cut
We sprout out more
Looking glamorous and bold
We smile with our green leaves
Truthful like the branches
We dare not go bare
Like the fig tree
We are casted to grow 
No matter what
We even settle to become a forest
I am proud to be a tree 
I am proud to be a Nigerian...

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Owner of a fig

tree, tells the carer to cut

it down for been a fruitless

failure for three years,

carer says it will be cared

and yield or it will be cut.

As scripted.
All is given ample time to grow and bare fruit, if they remain fruitless, more time will be afforded to them to grow and bare fruit, lest they be cut down.


Date: 06/18/2019...

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Look! That's the Lamb of God
Those words changed my life
As it stirred my heart
I made a decision
To follow Him
He turned and invited me to come and see
And so i did
I saw miracles
The blind was restored
The lame could walk
The dead rose again
The fig tree withered
The bread and fish multiplied
The storm stilled
And i believed
But the greatest miracle was yet to be
For it was at the old rugged cross
My savior died for me...

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Eve outlines the curves of an old  terrain,
where antique bottles in their moonlit sheen
reflect pillars’ glow…now mildly unseen
from vintage halls of paling, roughened  grain:
All through this vine-clad manor’s dusky shade
poses outside  its  elegant  fig tree--
Which attests to  a once- royal marquee
this landmark, our own hometown’s proud arcade.


Written 9/7/2019
Free Verse Or Rhyme Contest of  Eve Roper
Picture # 3...

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At the stump of the fig tree
where sweetness and fragrance
have long departed
a rain spider has built a nest
of autumn-dried leaves
covered with a blanket
of delicate silk.

I stand and watch
the little spiders
coming out to play
in smooth fur jackets - 
first, a game of tag
and then a fencing game
with slender long legs.

Soon they will spread out
and scurry around in the hunt for food;
raising neck hairs and bring shrieks of terror
as they intimidate nervous children and wives....

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I am a stranger at home,
300 places I have roamed;
I am unknown,
I do not need my phone!

A little late in the night,
we met and had a chat over a bite,
you told me about the pets you tame,
I do not even remember your name!

3 flights, 2 trains, 4 buses, 
20,000 miles from home is.
In 5 days I am leaving,
yet I do not know where I am going!

Under the sun, contemplating,
I know what life is encampasing,
but I do not know five from three
and how an onion fell from a fig tree?...

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