Willow Tree Poems

Wild willow tears
A poignant elegy to ecstasy
weeping as if embraced by a light breeze
Suspended in a sad splash of water

Her eyes drooped
regarded the aqua pond
There...

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I have observed the giant weeping willow
Whose branches like switches hang low
Especially when burdened by a snowfall,
When the strong December winds blow.

Naked, they survive the...

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Weep willow weep your weary winter woe
At the sight of your icy, new trousseau,
Above the frosted brook, a mirror faux
Her reflection was horribly so-so,
With rigid...

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    A river of memories
      flows through me

    Its current runs swift
  ...

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Summer willow tree
Tree tears dropping on the soil
Birds quenching their thirst
...

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Dappled light shimmered from a golden moon,
and peered into a grove of bent willow trees.
Arched branches swayed in a gentle breeze,
as if shadow dancing to...

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WILLOWS

Willow rise and flourish —
A verdant contrast
To summer’s sun-blanched sky —
Lifting your branches ever high,
But then curving, draping 
In arcs on down, with your leaves
So...

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All is bright, and I betwixt God and you,
  the kookaburra is in the willow,
and honeyeaters in the honeydew 
  flitter as I...

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When soft zephyrs are stirring arbor leaves
Words may be overheard whispered from trees.
Leaned against a trunk, my ears on alert,
This ranger heard soft words from...

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weeping willow trees
     long limbs lashing and slashing
          in the winds of...

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A willow trembles in the breeze
And stoops in awe as angels sneeze;
Quaking feebly to its knees,
Bending, doleful, if you please.

A day, as this, when squalls...

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Renegade trees pop up faster than dandelions all over my yard
I live in the country where I credit good old fashioned Kansas clay.
I wake up...

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Each spring when winter has trudged away,
I love to drive up to my house and see my trees in bloom.
The ornamental pear tree, so tall...

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He climbed the wasted willow tree
He claimed it was for a better look see
But really be only wanted away from the glitz
The blitz of whiskey...

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I sat down underneath a willow tree
far from the crowds in a secluded place.
Soon all my worldly cares began to flee.

God’s beauty all around me...

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