Snow Tree Poems

The weeping willows
Their widow's veil of leaves
Trailing sadly in the stream

Pungent spicy peppercorn trees 
Their green feathery hair
Festooned with pink beads 

Crooked old oaks 
Their...

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It is snowing out
The wind is blowing
Spreading on the ground
The wind is blowing 
While the snow  zigs zags

The wind is still blowing 
With the...

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The great big oak tree casts off his coat while the rest of us put ours on,
Throwing down the golden-brown piles of spiky leaves,
A dance...

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Two angry crows
Perched high in a tree
Covered in snow
Dancing the breeze
Broken branches sway
And decrepit leaves
Fall 
A moment in time
Without resolve

Leaning in to see
A quarrel of...

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In winter
The forest becomes invisible

This
Is
When the wood can be touched

Such
Tall
And toppled tenderness
Will not flinch

Beyond
Looking through
The centuries exposed

Forest floor
Floats
With deadfall

So many crisscrossed legs and arms

Windthrow veins
Drained
Of...

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The Christmas spirit
Is felt in the air
Bare trees and bushes
Are decorated
With Christmas lights lit

Lightening the darkness
Making it brighter
In the darkness shown
The snow on bushes 
Looks...

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In the heart of a snow-kissed grove,
where whispers of winter weave through the trees,
a menorah stands, its candles aglow,
dancing flames in the chill-laden breeze.

Beside it...

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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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Trees in the  forest
The leaves fall spreading
Shedding piling down
No one rakes them
They just spread outward

When winter returns
With the first snowfall 
Bare trees are coated
With...

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mother naked oak
oversees pine forest
squirrel grabs plump acorn

twisting shimmering leaves
cottonwood feels magical
silver faerie titters

pine cone plop
fir tree scratches sky
snow lands gently...

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Looking back, how silly now it seems
That in the forest I would name two trees.
Now I’m leaving, now I say goodbye,
To those two trees, to...

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     A tree prepares for whistling winds 
        shedding her leaves, exposing her limbs...

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As Another July Day Dawns

Stippling . . .
The leaves of the trees
S p a t t e r i n g   …Their
 ...

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Hammer and nails
And pine and paint,
Made by hands ...
Earns no complaint 

A roof and walls
Not much more,
A hole in the wall
Is my front door 

Put...

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