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 de homeless man rests ...

a bench 'round -de-savannah'

under Poui trees

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the Pomerac tree -

fallen pink inflorescence

a natural  carpet

childhood home garden 

a memory of many trees -

a long time ago

fruit trees strong and tall

in the yard where i grew up -

the long rod picker

with salt and pepper

fruit from the Mango Vere tree

eaten green in chow

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the city outskirts -

The Emperor Valley zoo

with bordering trees

under a Bay tree -

Royal Botanic Gardens

note our first kiss

at home paradise -

Guava and Avocado

trees gift us their fruit

my love deserts me -

Plum and Mango trees planted

just sweeten longing

Stations of The Cross

Good Friday in The Hollows -

pink Poui blooming

Easter's a-coming

traffic curbs flowering trees -

the savannah arc

all the trees wear green

circling The Savannah -

after blossoms fall

© gillena cox 2021

REVISIT
31 March 2019
31 March 2016
31 March 2015

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Poets and Storytellers United

Weekly Scribblings #63: Trees

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Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree."
-- Trees by Joyce Kilmer

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[Pink Poui, Queens Park Savannah, Trinidad from google dot com]


Like a woman who don's a shabby dress. You pass to, you pass fro. She's there. You go about your business. You pass by absorbed in the steady stream of traffic. You hear the noise in the heads, of commuters: TV talk, another terrorist hit...more tears...more strife...the world a global village in pain...peak hour...stuck in traffic ...you would think wide streets were made to offer speedy transport...with all its shoulders and middles and lanes. Then one day, with thoughts of a Holy Week, and Easter. She comes alive she strikes her lively poise.
Ah! the Poui -
shades of her Japanese sisters
the pink Sakura
© gillena cox 2017



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