Personification Tree Poems

Sacrifice

I was one of many on the Mount of Olives and
every year produced batches of black olives.
Sweet and black, my olives were prized near and...

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Entry for your choice M poetry Contest
Brian Strand

*Inspired by photo 

This tree stands alone with another nearby
Nature's friend, who is not shy
Standing high in the...

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I recline with my cherry tree musings…

a fountain of blossoms 
cherub cheek complected 
rise and curve from the ground 
up into a heaven and cloud...

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“The Sparrow”

In this moment I am a sparrow,
intent on guiding my landing below.

I am a raptor plucking green seeds,
awaiting the rapture to truly be free.

Gently...

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“How-do-you-do?” the seminal leaves of Autumn wave.
“When would you like to fly away?” prickles the gust.
Maternal-oak holds on tight as one birdy takes flight.

The gust...

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Sugar Maple was a beautiful tree
Just as pretty as a tree can be
With a solid and straight trunk so strong
And reaching ever up with graceful...

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Your strong ebony arms hold my white transient body.
We are lovers now,
coupled in the cold night,
neither as bold without the other.

I will leave you soon,
tears...

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What gave me away?
Was it my sway?
Or my long limber limbs
Like glasses with broken rims?

Oh sure, wind has its way with me,
But broken or uprooted,...

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She tosses her hair into the wind with wild abandon and hope.
Her ways wise and wonderful, power tree is as pure as Ivory soap.
I stand...

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A murder of crows screech my funeral song,
disturbing the eerie silence that surrounds.
Heartless hands have left scars etched into my crumbling bark,
as bleeding sap drips...

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The cascading contours of the verdant mountain slope
hold me, an upstanding cone of jade coniferous pine,
gilded in gold soaked from the swathe of snow,
turned to...

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G or T Personification Poetry Contest   Sponsored by: Joseph May
Written: August 22, 2023
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Deep in the typhoon of my maelstrom of anger.
I swirl in...

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The old tree is leaning badly in the forest as the man approaches ...

Well, old timer I think its time for you to go?
Have...

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"Nope, nope, nope! I already know why you're here. Don't you dare fell me with that chainsaw!," exclaims the dying tree.

"Well, I need firewood. It's...

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