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Sweet Gum Poems - Poems about Sweet Gum

Premium Member Song of The Cracker Butterfly No 4: ABAB
...Mountains, and forest, but wetlands, favored, but what do they know, they're just their pinups. The whole South to Arizona's, bordered ... trees and boulders serve their choice of hole-ups. Crack......

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Categories: sweet gum, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Lush November Fall
...Dawn awakes bright cities deep moonlit snooze when autumn pageant’s covert vanishing trail exits on the sly behind a stoic gem plinth while cheerful denizens asses black grain pepper clouds......

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Categories: sweet gum, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Etheree



Premium Member Taking a Fall Drive
...I took my last fall ride Down the road Where we could see egg yolks beaten with milk Splattered upon the sweet gum, silver birch and hickory Fall's angular sunlight at just the rig......

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Categories: sweet gum, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death of a Sweet Gum
... Death Of A Sweet Gum Miracle Man 3/14/2022 Leaves cascading as if indiscriminately lost, casualties of nature and multiple nights frost. Once a coat of many colors on our Sweet Gum T......

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Categories: sweet gum, death, tree, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member October Spice
...October Spice Inspired October creates a recipe For a sumptuous feast A bouquet garni of paprika hued orange tupelo, A fete of fragrant cinnamon shades in russet umber oaks, Sprinkling tinges ......

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Categories: sweet gum, october,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Impenetrable
...As dark clouds gather in the sky Down where the river narrows And Sprewell Bluff's craggy rocks rise Great blue heron has flown and the sparrow The river speedily flows on by Its color no ......

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Categories: sweet gum, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Childhood Memories
...Childhood Memories! Playing soccer as a forward and a goalie in early childhood through first grade meeting a pilot and a stewardess in kindergarten and even wanted to be a pilot for a while beca......

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Categories: sweet gum, 11th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Liquidambar Styraciflua
... Liquidambar Styraciflua (Sweet Gum Tree, the Sandbur of the Forest) Written: by Tom Wright 10-25-2016 After each leaf has slowly surrendered its green They take on the colors of a pa......

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Categories: sweet gum, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Someone To Love-Part 1
...Book in hand, I strode the path in awesome Autumn splendor. The warmth of the sun caressing my cheek, while the cool breeze gently tickled goose bumps across my warm skin. All around me the cre......

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Categories: sweet gum, loss, love, love hurts,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Old Grist Mill
...Surreal nature encapsulates the scene spread out in front of my unbelieving eyes. Years ago this was the center hub of activity in the rural community. Forgotten way of life as people congregate in c......

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Categories: sweet gum, beauty,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Sweet Gum
...sweet gum's base wrapped tight tree's limbs loaded with round balls.... pond catches offsprings ......

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Categories: sweet gum, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Scarlet
...Sweet gum Three pronged leaves Foot like, dancing in breeze Hung upon the clothesline drips blood Scarlet ......

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Categories: sweet gum, life, nature,
Form: Cinquain
Magical Forest
...As I walk through the valley of the Red Maple trees I take a look and realize that’s it’s a pioneer species and that’s just a little bit of knowledge from me You know i shun Bradford Pears, they d......

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Categories: sweet gum, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Surreal Nature
.... the old grist mill leans nestled in the rocky bank red fall leaves surreal The swift red stained creek that energized the mill's wheel still runs over ancient rocks......

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Categories: sweet gum, life, nature,
Form: Haibun
Autumn: Sunbeams On Colorful Streams
...A spindling sun stream on bough's cloak spun Melange of orange, yellow, red on foliage doth billow Decadent Umbrella wields fluorescent shield o'er barren fields Glinted blades colorful shades heigh......

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Categories: sweet gum, seasons
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

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