Short Plum Tree Poems

deliciously wild
exotic and so lovely
pleasingly purple...

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Goldfinch singing high
up in white cherry plum tree
holds me on the path
...

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spring time morning sun
   	  feeding robin on plum tree~
	                  silence of strollers
...

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Paint me
plum tree

Blue clouds
no shrouds

birds fly
sky high

capture
rapture

nature
nurture

embrace
my space

empty
lonely

paint me
calm sea...

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A plum tree blooms by my inkstone-washing sink, 
And every blossom is stained with the light ink.
Though lack of bright colors for people to praise,
It fills the world with pure fragrance and rays. 

(tran.)...

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"When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms" - Dogen
   
                                with blossoms bursting
              my plum tree basks in sunlight . . .
a song bird’s sweet trill...

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As I sit in sunbeam pearls,
My gemmed dragonfly visits, noon.
Warm regards from red, butterfly world!
Purple birds' sing summer tune.

Fairy and dragonfly visit,
sitting on my silk sunflower.
Joy and magic of the hued minute!
Birds flit the plum tree bower.
...

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A bleak morning, I waken
To relentless rain.
Drops pearl the redbuds.

Broken branches beckon
With slimy fingers.

A deserted nest perches
In the plum tree;
Black and wet, it does not
Remember the fledglings


12/4/2016 -  35 words

N/A in contest: Any Free Verse 150 words or less ( Laura Loo)
N/A in contest 245 (Brian Strand)...

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flamingos and sunsets
cherries and maple leaves
almond blossoms in sunshine
lipstick of high fashion
plummy plum tree blossoms
tulips and juicy watermelon
a flashy sports car at dawn
twilight pearls and rubies
bleeding hearts among roses
pomegranate and grapefruit
dragon fruit and rhubarb
apples and creamy frosting
butterflies and raspberries...

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A Beggar 
   
This irritating person, one leg shorter
than the other, unwashed and begging.
I feel disgust want him to get lost.
But he is there reminding me of 
past misery, and how bad fortune, ill
health follows me around… 
This sickly idiot, it could be me if I fall
out of the plum tree, so I give him loose 
change to soothe my conscience.
Pity and contempt, a bad mixture....

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the hard winter done
now the plum's cute white roses
a lovely blossom




Spring has sprung :) To read and see Plum flowers, please check the following two sites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum

http://g01.a.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1WOMtKpXXXXbNXpXXq6xXFXXX5/Beautifying-Plum-Blossom-Armeniaca-Mume-Seeds-300pcs-Flowering-Plant-Chinese-Plum-Tree-Seeds-Deciduous-Tree-Prunus.jpg...

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The mothers spread a plum stained blanket
under the tree,
and lay the babies down,
patting their backs.
They listen for the sch,
dedh, t-te sounds 
of plums dropping through leaves 
and hitting the ground around them.
Then they stand 
and gather up the ones-
Soft, some slightly split, bursting- 
The perfect ones and eat them,
plum juice staining their mouths
and fingers.
They laugh
and spit the pits away,
like the boys do....

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Blossoms
Of the plum tree
Thick snow
On the branches
A few wisps of steam rise
As a warm wind
The first of the season
Carries the sound of ice cracking
Through her still closed window
The light of the first quarter moon
And the glow of the angel beside her
Lights a path in the land of dreams
A land where time ebbs and flows like the tides
Where all those she had loved wait patiently for her
As her last few breaths quietly subside...

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as the moonlight flushes
the white plum-tree blossoms
down the night-black bark arms
like snowflakes softly landing
on the calloused ground
without a sound
a mirror image of a petaled sky
above
filled with
star blossoms and fragrance
deep and high
whirling around the moon
cold and distant
aloof
yet pouring out
its cold love like
a symphony of
softest flute
and bassoon
ah, the moon, the moon
casting shadows black and deep
as the blossoms go to sleep...

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