PADMA VENKATRAMAN
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misty rind of busty limes
tart and pucker, zesty kind,
life's dripping nodes, showers burst
rupturing silence of the forest-
forest of swaying cranes,
soot steeped sofa and
concrete panes-
but in the jungle of mans design
ive got tree cum in my sinuses
Its been so long since I've had time to sit down and write.
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Trees
They say the trees watched over my cradle- the swaying leaves wiped my tears- and words were not mine when I began to speak, but the trees have always heard me. They shaded my books as I learned their names- daily blessing me, every one- and I talked to them with more love than I did people, so the trees grew alongside me. They were there when one of them died- Her branches had held me as I wrote- and though not another soul sorrowed, my closest, my trees, wept with me.
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trees
i weep, weep like the thin, propelling branches of a willow, as the tender, fragile leaves sway ritualistically.
ever the same, never different.
i weep, i weep, i weep.
i pine for my life prior, pine like the thick, prickled needles adorning the trees in the woodland coating my primary school.
every memory is like a jabbing pine needle to my psyche, until i am nothing but a spiky coat of pain.
i pine, i pine, i pine.
i am ash, not ash like the tall, bright, strong tree, but i am simply ash.
every hurt was a burn mark, a kindling to my flame, until i eventually burned into a pile of ash.
i am ash, i am ash, i am ash.
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Poetry
Brian Bilston
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I feel bad about
Grinding up the old stump
In my back yard
For it was once a tree
Most likely a sapling
When this old house was build
1900 or 1901, a long time ago
Either way.
It grew to rise
Beyond the rooftops
Leaves reaching
To the sky.
Cut down, probably,
When "they" had to put in
More telephone lines
But the stump remained
A tomb stone
Roots deep and long and wide
To tell the world
That it was Here
Long before
We were.
When it's gone
Will we remember?
Or will we just
"keep moving forward"
As the laws of Progress
Dictate our demise.
- " The Tree" R. K. Fisher, copyright 2022.
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The Nature of Trees
Bright the day, and bright the leaves
Standing firm, neath star-kissed eaves
Waiting, watching, are the trees
Remembering still the old stories
Old is oak, and firm its roots
Steady it is, and swift its shoots
Oak was there, when world began
And oak will see the world again
Ash is wise, its branches tall
Its power flows, the woodlands call
It rights the world, with simple might
Ash works to set the world aright
Elm is bold, its power clever
It twists the world, and loves you never
Elm stands upon the gates of death
And watches for your final breath
Willow wanders, and seeks to wind
Its windswept branches, it cannot bind
The restless world, beyond its ken
Willow bends low, to try again
Oak and Willow, Ash and Elm
See again the mortal realm
They are old, and know what’s true
And still they stand, waiting for you.
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The Benefits of Being a Tree
I'm sure that trees think very hard.What else could they be doing?In the years and years of standing,Thoughts are simmering and stewing.They ponder why the sky is blue,Why they haven't eyes to view it.They wonder how their thinking works,Without a brain to do it.They imagine places they would go,If they had some legs to roam,But rooted deeply in the Earth,They're happy with their home.I'm sure…
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Frank O'Hara, from "Meditations in an Emergency"; The Collected Poems
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The shadows have their seasons, too.
The feathery web the budding maples
cast down upon the sullen lawn
bears but a faint relation to
high summer's umbrageous weight […]
And loveliest, because least looked-for,
gray on gray, the stripes
the pearl-white winter sun
hung low beneath the leafless wood
draws out from trunk to trunk across the road
like a stairway that does not rise.
John Updike, “Penumbrae”
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I return
To starlit concert hall
"from Cicada Symphony:
concerto of your voice,"
To What Progress has Preserved
in peppered jars of amber
fruity morsels of stale glee
To Autumn's rotting tapestry
of fraying velvet leaves
corpse silks of memory
Where hostile popcorn tree
from pocket evergreen
plummets to his roots
returned eternally
^^ a short little guy I wrote earlier this year about going home, childhood nostalgia, and death. Don't know what I'm doing here
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John T. Scott, Tree Poem, 1998, Aluminum and wood, 10/27/22 #cheekwood #sculpture #nashville by Sharon Mollerus
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— Speaking Tree, Joy Harjo
[text ID: I carry a yearning I cannot bear alone in the dark—]
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poem: a gentle giant has died
she left for winter,
never to return.
empty branches
stark against summer’s bounty.
avian occupants evicted,
naked stillness remains.
how do you mourn
when the corpse still stands?
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