Roots Tree Poems

A Conifer

A
Blue Spruce
Born from a cone
Green leaves shaped like needles
Inhale deep draughts carbon dioxide
Provide places for wrens and chickadees to hide
Sticky sap exuded from the...

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You and I
Were once two trees–
Two budding saplings
Placed too close
To grow together

An Upstate transplant,
My midwestern limbs,
Opened wide to hold you,
Casting too much shade
On your bright...

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Tree standing high and tall
Once was short and small
Branches reaching up to the sky
Swaying in the wind’s gentle sigh
Roots digging far and deep
Still with life...

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A Warped Tree
Today, when not arguing with Walter the Jew on Facebook
the ambiance in the house was surprisingly calm since
I got a key to my...

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Life Changing 

In these quiet woods, as shadows spread,  
Timorous leaves whisper my secrets to the breeze.  
A sentinel of time I am...

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Speak to me and my leaves shall sprout unfolding shade for all
Talk to me and the fruit I bear shall ripen and to the ground...

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Look at the paper tree grow
With words to nourish its roots
Watching the gentle way that its leaves sway
When the wind blows
Look at the paper bee...

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The witch sees green. She sets sail from door to door.
Her wake fells trees. “What the highest bidder forgot
to consider” was the black and blue...

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Oh, fairest leaves, like golden crowns,
That rustle, whisper, and softly fall,
Like Nature's tears, that mourn the passing hours,
And weep for summer's lost, and love's sweet...

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I am. 
A tree that has branches, which are tough. 
Snow is nothing for me to handle. 
When someone passes me, they break off an...

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When I want to know how the Earth is feeling…
I don’t ask the mountains, the rivers or the sea…
I walk down by the lake and...

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A majestic banyan tree standing tall and free,
Ages old, witnessing my  life's journey .
In the lane's corner, its presence stays,
Reminding me of trajectory of...

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You come to me in my dreams
A foggy night a distant memory 

I will never see you in life
But I’ll share your face in time

Family...

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The wedding ceremony is over…
to the world we’ve added a new husband and wife.
The cabin has returned to normal and everyone’s gone back to their...

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You are powerful.
You have the mountains
as your strength,
and the wind
as your voice. 

Your hearts song sings
in the breeze, carried
by the birds,
flying on your wings.

Your feet...

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