Short Olive Tree Poems

Olive
Greek's beloved
Protecting the smokers
Have plenty of antioxidant
Treatment...

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God's
present
from heaven-
rooted in the
past


Inspired by Homer's/Jefferson's quotes about the Olive Tree...

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From the Mediterranean Sea to California
Extraordinary green trees grown since ancient times
Oils and fruit, branches of peace...

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Each shoe,
a life He knew,
buds of His olive tree-
next time perhaps,it could be you..
or me !



Inspired by Abe's photos...

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Fuel and food for thee & me
To Noah a sign of life
And others ,a symbol to end strife-
A pictorial arbor emblem
To encompass God's kingdom...

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that old olive tree
over sixteen hundreds years 
what a lovely tree!


In Salento peninsula which is part of Puglia, Italy. One of its names is Hug Tree....

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Asleep, under yon olive tree
Disciples one,two three;
A flicker of torches in the breeze
Then,betrayal with a kiss-
Could thirty ducats be worthy of this.

Full story @Mt 26:36-50...

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a gnarled olive tree
  surveyed the scene --
tender saplings soaring skyward
  regal oaks basking in glory
majestic cedars 'midst the clouds
  --under her breath
                 ~ I’ll outlast you all...

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tree* for life phases... 
as crib, cottage, then coffin
God-blessed creation

*Psalm 52:8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

August 20, 2019...

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Millions of trees grow live and die,for two Millenniums thinking tree alive,sitting in Puglia,South Italian soil in peace,this Olive tree born for peace and a wonderful botanical piece,seen Christ and lives this long to see Christ coming soon in News....

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Today I enjoyed watching a video about the biggest and oldest olive tree in the world. Her age estimated  5500 years old. Her shade area about 250 meter sq. It produces about 1100 bounds of olive a year.

stand tall with vast shade
several thousand years old
huge sum of olive...

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The season of heat 

The summer sun
Fiercely tells the truth
I hate the sun
Seek shelter under an olive tree
Till sun is malleable  
And knew that the truth
Has to be served 
Smoothly
As not to send us into a state 
Of panic
By replacing it with phosphor
 Exploding missiles
And other mad human inventions...

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Vouves Olive Tree.

(The olive tree of Vouves estimated to be over 3000 years old. Still producing delicious olives on the isle of Crete in Greece. The exact age of the tree can not be determined because the heartwood has already rotted away). 

the Vouves olive tree
it is producing olives
her age three thousands...

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Aged olive tree
Where Jesus knelt
Still alive today
A thousand years
Or more growing
Unabandoned
Exposed yet free
Open witness before
A history once more
In Gethsemane waving
It leaves to the world
Triumphant, victorious
And never commit errs
Till eternity and gospel wish
Crown the returned of the Victor....

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I was born in a small village,
with no distinction or privilege!
I loved every inch of that land
And carved the roads on my hand!
I kissed each olive tree on the trunk
Some thought I'd been really drunk.
It's always been my old flame,
And I still adore it the same.
It's always been in my heart
It nurtured my taste and art....

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They cut down the olive trees
and shoot the farmers, unarmed, in the belly, 
in plain view of IDF soldiers, relishing the moment.
How sweet it is to die under the shade of their olive trees,
that bind them to their tortured history.
And the wind that blows the branches dancing
oblivious to their terror, beating their conspiracy.
...

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Aged,gnarled rooted in him
Hardened in part,supporting the tree;
Fallen,but not cast off are you,
Broken in unbelief,provoked jealous
As wild boughs engrafted thereto;
Fallen,but not cast off are you.
Bitter yet productive,like fruit from the stone.
Natural branch shoots,no less able of grafting thereto;
Fallen ,but not cast off are you....

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within the United
States i'm creating
a break away place
to live given
the name
State of Mind

with a population
density of one
they can no
longer claim
eminent
domain

their rules no
need apply
because i'm
a separatist
within my
State of Mind

at the capital
building's
front steps
i move the
olive tree
closer to the

sun...

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THE OLIVE TREE
Aged,gnarled rooted in him
Hardened in part,supporting the tree;
Fallen,but not cast off are you,
Broken in unbelief,provoked jealous
As wild boughs engrafted thereto;
Fallen,but not cast off are you.
Bitter yet productive,like fruit from the stone.
Natural branch shoots,no less able of grafting thereto;
Fallen ,but not cast off are you....

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Can't sleep, deep in thoughts,
keeping beat with the clock.
Looking threw mini blinds.
Olive tree branches, draping
down; I'm envyous, they seem
relaxed. I see the moon between
the leaves. No barking dogs,
just stillness. Quiet moments,
calming down. Keeping thoughts,
down to a roar;--- good night all.


03/11/14   written by,  Larry Berdoo
                         WRITE ON!...

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Under an olive tree,
covered from the sun
we used to sit down.
In the shade of an olive tree
we laughed and had fun,
out from the busy life in town.
In the middle of nowhere
we built castles in the sky,
we drew stairs to go there
knowing it was too high.
Under that olive tree
we don't sit anymore,
we don't dream we can fly,
our laughs are no more
near to the castles in the sky....

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Love is but a miracle
A circle is but the end
Of a new beginning
Freedom is a prison
Where by you kiss your keeper
I shall become what I never was
A terrorist
Of explosive kindness
Silently
Feeding empty stomachs’
Inspiring empty minds
Filling baskets of lost hope
Emptying the spite of enemies unkind
The olive tree
The martini
The bond
Of us all
Inside the apple of humanity
Eve...

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Two liners
He sat on a square stone under an olive tree
contemplating his afterlife.

What if he came back as a donkey in Sudan?
Or dromedary in Sahara.

He could become a dog like the one at his feet,
The dog looked up, wagged its tail slowly.

Pondering this he came to the conclusion
He wanted to be a long-lived olive tree.

The olive tree in Portugal, if in Palestine he risked
Being set aflame by settlers...

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Minimum wage

The olive trees in the landscape
near the village,
Have working-class trunks
and no illusion
Of becoming middle-class trees.
They refuse to grow 
in a plant- nursery and be tampered with
by botanists.
They do not envy tall palm trees.
Good luck to those who see the world 
through an elevated height.
Good soil and water the plebian olive tree wants
it has deep roots and will not fall
in a storm....

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You are
My little jowel
My cristal
My city
My rescue
when i am lost in the wilderness
My passport
My travel
My exile
My sixteen wings
My oceon waves
My big desert
My dunes
My palm tree
My olive tree
My numbers
My alphabets
My book
My new bilble
My new language
My lost and found
My earth quake
My energy
My music
My mosaic
My guitar's wire
My heaven
My Hell
My paper
My Pen and my ink
my laugh
My bag of jokes...

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