Short Saplings Poems

forest pine saplings
shelter under strong branches ~
mother tree haven...

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flycatchers flitting 
    shifting dappled canopy~
     saplings catching spots...

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Writer's Block

barren saplings of thoughts
strain against conglomerates 
praying for rain

©deborah burch
4.27.13...

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a morning glory 
peasants sow paddy saplings
larks hop in their eyes 
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Kolkata, June 11, 2016...

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refresh
flowing beauty
saplings sway, songbirds woo
robust flakes fragrant, graceful plunge
spring breathes...

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No greater shadow than ferns teeth
Sheltering the infant saplings underneath,
The same soil where strangling vines sleep
What the forest grows, also reaps...

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Spring’s budding, branching arbors,
saplings to sappy seniors,
are all stalwarts with ringed hearts
and life giving leaves.


(inspired by Francine Roberts' contest) 5/24/11...

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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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Rock-ribbed republicans
under
six sleek, slender saplings
fasten
red leather, yellow leather
onto
rubber baby-buggy bumpers.

(Say the long lines fast three times;
by now you know that nothing rhymes.)...

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ACORNS


    Acorns born on oak

    tree feel proud with hats on stalks:

   All are free to fall

  on promise of new saplings,

   well nourished by mother Earth.

  
       01/ 14 / 21

   Re-edited on 05/30/21...

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in the inland garden,
luscious lavender hills,
dipped in flickering white,
scattered green dwarf saplings 
sit and spy capricious
pink and white dance across
once and again vast field.



3/27/2020...

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Balms
saunters
besides deep
on a brisk breeze
through her nest of blond acacia saplings 
their closeness is kept through striking senses
at scarlet dusk
starry day 
fairness
times

Written: February 13, 2022...

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A senryu for A Shero, heroes, and for POETRY's sake ---

I
sudden gusts of Fall -
green heroes fall in twos, threes
yes, trees, and you, me

II
Notice the saplings sway
With the winds ways, unbroken
Resist and old limbs fall...

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Little saplings anxious to enjoy
Into the new world of poetic joy
desirous to spread fragrance of its bossoms
Let me grow.

water it with your encouragement
Nourish it with your optimistic commitment
Protect with your shade from diminshment
Let me grow....

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Deep in the forest
Drooping saplings revive
A bird sings her majestic song
Butterflies dance in the tune
Woodland air makes the leaves 
clap
Sun rays glow through the 
branches
Tall trees – the spectators
Ah! live concert in the hills.

...

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The Edge of Life

The Heron stands motionless
feathers mimicking the leaves
of slowly swaying saplings

its stoic Buddha pose
silent in its presence
conflicts with its purpose

instincts wily wisdom
poised of necessity
on the edge of life


John G. Lawless
©7/13/2018...

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Bombs and guns scythe through the innocent
writ in spattered blood evil intent
from youth's garden, saplings gone.
But staunchly rising from the killing floor
Liberty retakes the tricolour
strides a nation, marches on.


25th November 2015
For contest ' For Paris', sponsored by Debbie Guzzi
Written in Rime Couee form....

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Worms rotate in a peculiar procession
As spring enters - the conquering gladiator.
Saplings play in the breeze.
Dogs smile at the sun while the wind breathes with sighing despondency.
Falling leviathan blossoms float to the ground from reoccurring trees.
Nature holds us all hostage in her warm embrace; green, urgent, and rampant....

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Worms rotate in a peculiar procession
As spring enters - the conquering gladiator.
Saplings play in the breeze.
Dogs smile at the sun while the wind breathes with sighing despondency.
Falling leviathan snow flake blossoms, float to the ground from reoccurring trees.
Nature holds us all in her warm embrace, green, urgent, and rampant....

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I feel like a star
cast amongst this ambiguousness
of sky
and I'm hanging on
to vacant air

as all the saplings
and gawkers
slurp on lattes
and wish upon my misery

alas, when one of those whims
chooses to make itself
come true,
I'll shoot like a meteor

into nothing

but a tittle of dust
flickering
in someone else's dream...

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From a seed to tree

from the soil to me

green little leaves

saplings grow wild

the citrus smell

growing strong

roots deep into earth

breaking the surface

mother earths birth

be bare in winter

to fall in the fall

and green in the spring

bring summer shade 

the fruits grow

tender shell 

sweet smell

standing under my citrus tree. -TA...

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Soft showers fall and robins call. 
The scent of grass is sweet.
Meadows green and saplings lean
in warmth of April’s breeze.

The skies are fair and in the air
the lilacs’ fragrance wafts.
Small buds first show, then quickly grow –
delighting bees and wasps!

May’s flowers beam and streamlets gleam
along the mountain slopes.
Colors sing and everything
is life and love and hope!...

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Mysterious forest,
looking so safe and comforting,
showing its flourishing green canopy
and outer saplings.

Within,
gnarled, decaying trees
litter the ground.

In the midst
of these dying woods
stands a tree older than age
with dead, mangled branches
     protruding 
from every knot hole.

Still
in the upper most layer
green life springs forth
like the life support
of a dying man....

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10 days before Spring
comes the birds are already
furnituring their 
 
~

last years homes those nest
nesting they left behind to
comeback and raise crests

~

another saplings
small group of sparrows robins
baby birds chirping

~

woven atop the
 twigs intertwined and sewn in
winter springs new nest


3/10/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2023©...

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Melted cloud falls through the mid-summer air
Shower screen sparkles in seeping sunset rays
Drenching the long scorched auburn meadow
New saplings sprout from the moistened soil
Spreading in delight gossamer emerald leaves
Dance to the music of drizzle with rain drops
I see shimmering in my garden in just August.

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August 9, 2022
Contest : Just August
Sponsored by : Andrea Dietrich...

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