Death of a Sweet Gum
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Death Of A Sweet Gum
Miracle Man
3/14/2022
Leaves cascading as if indiscriminately lost,
casualties of nature and multiple nights frost.
Once a coat of many colors on our Sweet Gum T...
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Categories:
sweet gum tree, death, tree, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Liquidambar Styraciflua
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Liquidambar Styraciflua
(Sweet Gum Tree, the Sandbur of the Forest)
Written: by Tom Wright
10-25-2016
After each leaf has slowly surrendered its green
They take on the colors of a pa...
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Categories:
sweet gum tree, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
Mayday Memories
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As a child at play
In the merry month of May
Wallowing the hours away
As one would surely say
Lying neth old sweet gum tree…
sipping a glass of sassafras tea
A pork chop tied to my neck you...
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Categories:
sweet gum tree, love, dog, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Tree of Dreams
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A tree of height dreams was vast Sweet gum it seems,
when I chance to retrace tender childhood thoughts.
Young dreams of enemy's luck in classic schemes.
Thoughts would drift as wars wit...
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Categories:
sweet gum tree, faithsweet, sweet,
Form: Rispetto