#branches poems on Hello Poetry

E Townsend Sep 2015

Warbler

Whoever swoops into my heart next
please don't make a nest
and then fly away when you're ready to be on your own.
Don't use me as a shelter
to keep you from the drowning rain
and expect me to feed you
when nothing else is living.
It’s hard holding a home sturdy
sufficiently well for my aching soul.
The branches are already trembling
the weeping wind echoing
lost, diminished cries
of the ones who took off.
I know I push you away
when you get too close,
but this is where you fight to hold on longer.
I keep losing the ones I love
because they have not loved me
enough to stay.

#heart #home #branches #bird #shelter #nest #warbler

Thomas EG Sep 2015

Roots

And after all you've gone through
To obtain respect from your roots
You must tell your younger branches
That this is just the way it is...

You have to mislead the youth
And continue to hide the truth
For you cannot blossom just yet
You need to wait for the sun to set

Now now, empty your watering can
Do not nourish the flowers' minds
Thoughts of drowning scare the man
So you should let them droop behind

And when they ask you why
The tree's vocal chords have changed
You will lie to their green eyes
And say *"it is only a nickname."

(Family tree)

#flowers #green #tree #drowning #branches #respect #roots #blossom #nickname #mislead

SøułSurvivør Jun 2015

**** moon

10W**

parting
the branches
she peeks out
to see
who's
looking

soulsurvivor
(c) 6/12/2015

The moon has just risen
but she's still behind a tree

#moon #trees #naked #branches #shy #peek

Hannah M Hendrickson Jun 2015

Haiku #3

Needles poking out.
The branches pushing out to me.
Yet, are stuck in place.

#short #haiku #nature #tree #branches

Emily L May 2015

Leaf

Sometimes I can hear it,
the voice of a fallen leaf
lost to the wind.
Its gallant effort to become apparent
as if it was more then just one of the rest.
It says, "Let your footsteps be kind
and not trample my body,"
This earth is too fleeting.
I'm sure it would think.
To be whole and unpressed,
Not without burden
A small voice that descends
*soft like the drop of a pin.
"I can hear you," I whisper
among all these branches
They don't speak like they used too.
I'm sure the fallen would think.

#life #loss #nature #trees #leaves #branches #rebirth

Meteo Mar 2015

Morning walk for Coffee in the City (and as the title suggests, let the pretentiousness commence).

Spring does not occur
in verdant shocks and celebrations
of garden blooms and animals *******
it's a slow parade
it's a hostage situation

there is a crow
dodging traffic for roadkill
there is a boy
who loves a girl who doesn't love him

The Twilight Man
finally learns how to cross the street
alongside school children

The thin ice
which still resides
on the concrete
dares you to be the first to traverse it

and the snowbanks
which lay before you
feign alpine hazard

and I wonder what the naked tree branches are saying
as they reach for the sky with twisted fingertips
with their meteorological braille
we confuse for variations of shade

they say give us back the sun
and we'll give you our leaves
there is a book in each tree we do not cut down
and we read it as we breathe
a forest is a library we breathe

Spring is resolving hostage negotiations.

#love #spring #unrequited #branches #crow #twlight

AE Mar 2015

Old goodbyes

Red branches,
out of place?
White snow,
been here for days
Old goodbyes,
In a tight im brace,
Just couldn't let go

#love #sad #life #tears #memories #nature #goodbye #years #branches #trail

Stefan Smith Feb 2015

This Tree I See

I can stare at a tree a million times,
and see a familiar composition within each.
Roots,
Trunk,
Branches,
Leaves.
It's composition has no surprise
to my eyes because
It's been the same
my whole life.
But if i look at it,
this one time.
Can i see a tree,
standing tall with branches
reaching out like desperate arms
to proceed past the canopy
in which it's elders have previously formed.
Can i see the bark,
tightly hugging its intricate insides
to protect like a fortified city
that expands and grows stronger
as each day passes by it's walls.
Can i see the leaves,
Dancing with the wind
with a beautiful alliance
to exchange it's touch
with a breath of oxygen to fill my lungs.
Can i see the fullness of life it bears,
As it only proceeds through the
construct of natural inspiration.
Perfect in all it does,
Because it only does
What it is meant to do.
May I live
As this tree i see.

Life reflected through a natural identity. What is our natural purpose?

#life #nature #tree #perfect #leaves #branches #growth #trunk

Laman The Big Kahuna Sisco Jan 2015

Baked Marmalade

Life, is a walk up the seven steps.
Step one, is the base of all existence.
Step two, love's own creative evidence.
Step three, the force of life is connected.
Step four, the stone is held here.
Step five, one's voice is heard through all fours.
Step six, everything else becomes clear.

Step seven, connects with one.
The seed of life is planted
So that a new tree grows, more
Than the sapling that dropped it

the answer lies here.

#steps #branches #13 #seven

Gigi Tiji Oct 2014

**** Time!

v e i n s s p l i t
d e n d r i t i c a l l y
hands open into
lineal branches inside
flowing animal waterways
carry Life to further
reaches of time

Evolution, or
how us silly animals have continued life on this crazy rock hurtling through space at a bajillion lightyears per shutting eyelid,
is quite an intense,
one big happy family tree.
Like veins, our **** times carry life
along the river Present.
We're frisky little blood cells,
but eventually we run outta oxygen.
So we swoop around the sun
like a shooting star around a heart and
return to the Source to get filled up again.

#life #rivers #tree #branches #veins #dendrites #pathways #neurons #waterways #neural