Short Redwood Poems

Redwood trees
holding sunlight
     at bay.

wrote 9-20--08...

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Majestic Redwood
Boughs acsending toward heaven
Kissing the Angels...

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your wisdom in rings
endurance is in your height
majestic in width...

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Giant redwood trees
Native house with yard on lap
Hosting spring with care...

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Giant redwood trees
couldn’t dwarf my native home
spring-green yard upholds...

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forsythia fades 
redwood stands a thousand years
     Mayfly lives her day....

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there it is
lighting up the forest
candelabra redwood

Photo: Active NorCal...

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Big Sur,
oak and redwood
and open chapparel,
fragile groves of bay & laurel-
run wild...

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Because of the rafter in my own eye, 
I will not speak of the REDWOOD TREE in yours.

A quote by JoanMarie Peranteau...

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Redwood, .... Redbud,
                            Scoring's Like;

Redwood, .... Redbud,
                            All God's Might!

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raucous red robins
rocking, rolling, ring refrain ~
redwood ricochet

2/26/23
Contest: Alliterku Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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ancient redwood gleams
softly through the mists of time…
mayfly flitters by

-08 Jun 2014-

Average Lifespan:
Redwood Tree - 600 years
Mayfly - 1 day...

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California redwood tree.
The tallest tree on the earth.
How majestically you stand.
King of the forest.

Robert Pettit for Russell’s Trees Everywhere contest.
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Woe is me, Woe is me
The rafter in my own eye
forbids me to speak of 
the redwood tree in yours
From this pain, there is no release
suffer I must, in total silence
Woe is me, Woe is me...

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Triumph of nature, witness of time
Reaching high into to the sky, bursting from natures skin
Everlasting— Sequoia Sempervirens through death and rebirth 
Evermore feeding the forest floor....

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The Trees
Dawn Redwood
Golden needles
Grace accentuated
Bare limbs
Hold snow 
Like loose cloak
Spring green comes forth
Nest appear in safe place
Eggs hatch  ...

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Hyperion
                       high hiperion
                        tallest redwood, a marvel
                        trying to touch the sky.

     
     08/20/19

  'Tree themed Haiku' Contest by Tania Kitchin...

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hyperion
world’s tallest living redwood tree
higher than the Statue of Liberty
she oversees her forest
hypervigilant
all-knowing.
her subjects wave their leaves
showing their appreciation
for her protective service...

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this road—
no one goes down it,
Autumn evening.

Matsuo Basho

(1980 travel from Lake Tahoe to Fortuna, California)

route 36–
ledge acclaims redwood treetops,
no pregnant pit stops

Kim Rodrigues © 6/20/2020...

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Redwoods cloaked in green
home to golden birds, singing
up in true blue skies
So ancient and prodigious
hailing the stars and the moon

Redwood rosy morn
redwood soaked in the sunset
with silent breezes
Lord of the dark green forest
still in its vigorous youth...

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Read my heart now, open me
Take me down to Avonlea
Sit with me in Carmody
Study me and you will see
A man who with intensity
Doth love with an immensity 
To move a mountain to the sea 
Or climb the biggest redwood tree
And at the top proclaim to thee
Affections to the nth degree...

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[“ The Plant”]
We have plants and some are very special.
I pray I remain faithful
In taking care of my
SPECIAL each and every one plants.
They are so fragile, so rare, and so precious.
A plant is a LIVING THING
Which could even grow into a redwood.


THE PLANT IS ANY FRIENDSHIP....

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the joy of you pop 
   
 once big as a redwood tall 
   
 fragile you blessed me 
   
   
   
 your eyes gave me hope 
   
 hundreds of years you grow small 
   
 a dark evil world 
   
   
   
 I stand taller now 
   
 a young sapling rooted deep 
   
 lessons you taught me...

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haiku ~ redwood


unfelled statuesque
accomplishing amour touch
archaic redwood

redwood, I was amazed at their shear size and extreme age 
some of these living redwood trees are over 3000 years old

august 4, 2020
traditional haiku-nature themed poetry contest
sponsor: Tania Kitchen...

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Without your eyes, there is no Grand Canyon or Redwood
With SELF, there is both selfishness and selflessness
Stop thinking, start meditating: I have taken, what may I give?
Jesus chose to yield His will, to obey Father. In Jesus I rest
The Incarnation, God taking on flesh, mystery of SELFishNESS...

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