Roots Tree Poems

Trees form an alliance…you might say they’re in cahoots…
with other trees and organisms that intertwine within their roots.

Pine, fir, palm, cherry, maple…it matters not what...

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Some see your for your beauty
But I only see the pain
No one at all can see inside
Life travels on just like a train
So strong you...

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In this new century of our Lord
The gardener planted the young tree 
Placed in garden of Gethsemane 
An olive to the knee

Around two thousand years...

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An Old Tree
Bails unlocking their way
From the soil of dystopia to the branches of sonnet.
Wind wavering and crossing mountains away
And I yet holding onto the...

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Barked with nature's firm hope,

Branches of nature's strong faith,

Sappers of nature's sweet love:-

Embers of crucufixion,

Leaves of reesurrection borne:-

Roots bearing tribulations:

Trunking annunciation:-...

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A whispered wish, longing soil deep,
Touch the stars; all are called to weep
Trillions of lifetimes, we shall strive,
To grasp the heavens, to truly thrive

But distance...

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I plant a tree on top of the hill
and there it stood still
I water it with my tears
and it kept blooming throughout the year 
and...

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I have not seen a mulberry tree,
only the words that spoke to me.
Now I romance its boughs and shade,
where butterflies in beauty wade.

Beneath the hush...

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A seed of wrong, a sullied start,
A whispered lie, a broken heart.
The law's bright shield, a noble gleam,
But rotten roots disrupt the dream.

A search unlawful,...

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A seed is planted 
                    ...

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Reconnection
I want to be part of nature. 
I want my flesh to turn into a tree.
I want the fresh oxygen to flow into my lungs.
I...

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seed
aloft,
lands lightly,
sends roots below,
sprouts into sunshine,
and, as the seasons pass,
becomes a great sycamore,
while, below, a boy lies face up,
and reflects under its swaying limbs,
"a climbing...

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A Conifer

A
Blue Spruce
Born from a cone
Green leaves shaped like needles
Inhale deep draughts carbon dioxide
Provide places for wrens and chickadees to hide
Sticky sap exuded from the...

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You and I
Were once two trees–
Two budding saplings
Placed too close
To grow together

An Upstate transplant,
My midwestern limbs,
Opened wide to hold you,
Casting too much shade
On your bright...

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Tree standing high and tall
Once was short and small
Branches reaching up to the sky
Swaying in the wind’s gentle sigh
Roots digging far and deep
Still with life...

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