Tree Walnut Poems

Native American symbol practicing wisdom as it lives and grows in life...

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Black Walnuts roll over a high edge,
the tree is too close to a sea cliff.

Walnuts dash themselves upon rocks,
only one lands on a surfing wave.
It...

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Takaha Shugyo haiku and tanka translations

hatogata horarete ichiju haya mebuku

A single tree
with a heart carved into its trunk
blossoms prematurely
—Takaha Shugyo, loose translation by Michael R....

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The old walnut tree in the meadow weep
Time had arrived her strains in sorrow steep

Echoes of a nameless and powerful storm break in
I feel shivers...

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There’s not a sound
In the woods
But for the lone, heavy
Thump
Of a walnut
Shed
From its tree
To the ground,
Re-affirming
That the Earth
Is not hollow.

I’m startled by the thud, so...

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walnut tree in fruit
best pickled green eat with cheese-
carved Chinese treasure
...

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a walnut tree -

the fruits of its labor

spilled at its feet


April 29, 2018...

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Out the back
Behind gran's house
Halfway down the street.
The little yard with the mangle.
And the narrow concrete strip path
That led to the other end,
Where the walnut...

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As I passed my wicket fence
The ageing walnut tree, 
Showered me with withered leaves
And said something to me; 

That it stood since ages past
But I...

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a walnut waltzing with a willow tree
A molecule is neither a destitute mop without a bucket house. Nor is it a seven acre field that...

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as my fears subside the tree I planted in spring is showing growth

Written Aug 18, 2016 For John Hamilton's Monoku Madness  Contest...

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THE AMAZING BLACK WALNUT
High in the tree, Daddy shook a branch
to make them fall 
don't let them hit your head.
An outer shell,
green halfway to the...

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Once summer green
then Autumn gold
bedecked this ancient tree-
Today silhouette laid bare
misletoed in winter frieze....

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