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Tree Poems | Examples of Tree Poetry

Tree Poems - Examples of all types of tree poetry to share and read. This list of tree poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of tree poetry. This list of works about tree is an excellent resource for examples on how to write tree poems.
Bonsai
Puddles of green mist littered across the branches creating platforms ...Read the rest...
Categories: green, nature, tree,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Two Poets Meet Collaboration
What do you see when you see trees? My eyes travel each trunk and branch. With feathered leaves in blowing breeze till the chipper comes with a cranch! Your details shine with luminescence - I eschew detail for the...Read the rest...
Categories: tree, death, humor, love, poetry,
Form: Other
Premium Member The View of the Sugarbush
Rippling soil sways in ways In ways a maestro drunkenly Displays their baton, Earth in Perfect fluid Earthen motion It conducts and plays en tandem The symphony of syrup season Rings through Vermont’s silken air Each movement weaves effortless In majesty. Hickory smoke leaves...Read the rest...
Categories: tree, appreciation, earth, mountains, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Goldfish fighting in my dishwasher
I'm slowly evaporating from this verbal tennis match For some reason we continue to give breath to these vapor windy circles Brewing a coffee tornado that is going to spill all over my shirt And they say...Read the rest...
Categories: tree, anger, heart, love, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member RISING
Rising I rise to see the rising of our sun, ‘tho only To begin with, a fat quarter of her, For she is in great part hidden, Blocked by a line of trees. She comes… A...Read the rest...
Categories: tree, day, imagery, moon, spring,
Form: Rhyme



THE CRUELTY OF TIME
Oh, how cruel time can be! Shattering hopes and killing beauty. Slowly it steals moments, leaving everything bare Time, a relentless force, beyond compare. Here lies a victim of time's cruelty, the ruins of the cotton tree Once a symbol...Read the rest...
Categories: tree, 12th grade, death, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Apple of My Eye
Most apples don't fall far from the tree Although that's not what happened to me In the blink of an eye I wound up in a pie Just one more tart in a bakery As a...Read the rest...
Categories: tree,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Cotton trees
Cotton floats across lake letting their presence known...Read the rest...
Categories: tree,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Mr Crows Protected Tree
Unlovable opinionated Mr. Crow struts around like he owns the town We love seeing him, he is always in a blue mood, his beak in a frown. He owns the largest oak tree if you ask the...Read the rest...
Categories: tree,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member chaotic reality
integer exponents create an... old greek geometry while... fraction exponents create a... realistic geometry called... fractal geometry as seen in... tree branching and all... other existences of time as a... chaotic being of infinite change... in the continuing now of the... moments we call time... stan sand ...Read the rest...
Categories: life, time, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Permanence as Nothing
There is Permanence Seeming as hidden In the moving and Tumultuous flow Of life.. Permanence as nothing May be the resonant Narrative......Read the rest...
Categories: mountains, perspective, tree, words,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Simplicity and Grace-A Types of Poems Poetry Contest
"I shall be like a tree planted by the river ... " Psalm 1:3 I am as strong as a tree, soaring yet grounded roots of my past firmly planted within the earth. The leaves of my Present...Read the rest...
Categories: tree,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member AS A TREE
"I shall be like a tree planted by the river ... " Psalm 1:3 Abiding in God and in His faithfulness, I shall be like a tree of fruitfulness Blessed to do His perfect will, planted along...Read the rest...
Categories: tree, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: ABC
Premium Member The Tree of Life
The tree of life is thriving In a garden by the lake Saving men from mortal sin While the earth and heavens shake Its seeds continue spreading Bearing fruit throughout the land Gently cared and freely shared By the...Read the rest...
Categories: life, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Delphic
“The forest is my loyal friend. A Delphic shrine to me.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson...Read the rest...
Categories: nature, tree,
Form: Quatrain

Specific Types of Tree Poems

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