by Juliet Wilson
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Thanks for the inspiration. Here’s my tree-related verse:
Yard Yarns
Yes, thank you Juliet, I ended up writing a different one……..here it is:
http://florescence.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/a-tree-speaks/
I loved doing this. Thanks for the prompt, Juliet!
Here is mine:
numbing nirvana
I have two at
http://artpredator.wordpress.com/
1) untitled
http://artpredator.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/spring-poem/
and
2) “I’d Rather Be An Oak than a Eucalyptus”
http://artpredator.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/i-would-rather-be-an-oak-than-a-eucalyptus/
BTW, how do you make the titles of the poems link? do you have to know html? did I miss the instructions somewhere?
Who wants to be a tree?
Branches of Life
Here’s mine:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/03/barking.html
spellbound
i had fun with this one…
here’s mine.. inspired by one of my studies in college
http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/03/lament-of-rubber-tree.html
I have a poem about Bristlecone Pines.
Rose
xo
http://dewyknickers.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/carbon-trading/
here’s my try.
http://wordsfromanauthor.blogspot.com/2008/03/read-write-poem-prompt_16.html
And mine: Chestnut-backed Chickadees in the Oregon White Oak.
Nice prompt, Juliet!
I had to find you in the swamp, Art, with all those links.:-) Post as many links as you want, but do it one comment at a time.
There’s simple code to for the linked title, I’ll email you a sample you can see, and modify.
Thank you! My poem is Tree=Life. I look forward to doing some reading! Thanks Juliet!
I often write as or about trees:
Arboreal Desperation
Juliet already mentioned this last week (thanks!), but I’d also like to encourage everyone with tree-related poems to submit your links to the Festival of the Trees, which will be hosted next month on a Brazilian blog – our first bilingual edition! Call f0r Submissions
For my own submission, I don’t have anything new yet, but here’s an old poem that fits the bill: Confession of the Gallows Tree.
Hey, everyone!
Ophelia falls from a Bradford Pear Tree in Georgia.
Hi all,here is mine:
my poem
love-bd
Here is my effort…
http://semi-retired.livejournal.com/23400.html
Late on this obe, but had to submit even though I call it a draft -
http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/03/roots.html
This was fun but went in a totally weird direction.
<a
href=”http://lindaspoetry.blogspot.com/2008/03/trees.html”White Birch Tree
hm…what the heck did I do wrong? I’ll try again. Oh, I forgot the bracket before White. Duh!
White Birch Tree
O.K., here’s a new one: Legerdemain
I’ve been lax about prompts lately, but I do have 12 March 02008 – Snapshot Poem
a tree’s lament
Disappointment
[...] In response to the Read Write Poem prompt, “be a tree.” Other responses are here. [...]
Awakening
There was only one tree I was feeling for this one.
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/03/stand-sure.html
On the other hand, I guess there was another tree in me after all…
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/03/one-night-only.html
This came out of the last two prompts; trees and repetition both grow poems, and they’re both tough. The seaker isn’t a tree, but she’s kin to one.
It’s here, and thanks.
This might be a little unusual, but then again, so am I.
http://beansthought.blogspot.com/2008/03/be-tree.html
Somehow the poems got mixed up. This my poem for Read Write Poem.
my poem
Thanks for your comments on “Mourning Dove” but that poem was for Weekend Wordsmith. lol
Melanie-bd
[...] This poem was inspired by readwritepoem’s latest prompt – to write a poem from the point of view of a tree. To see what other poets have done with the same prompt, click here. [...]
Here’s mine
tree life
A fun prompt to work with
Mother as Oak Tree
This was probably one of my favorite prompts of all time. I love trees. I love imagining I am something else, or imagining what something else might say.
[...] This poem is based on the prompt from readwritepoem. [...]
Here is my poem, Tree Song.
Another Snapshot Poem, Spring Equinox
here’s my small poem, almost like 2 haikus:
http://makeshiftwords.blogspot.com/2008/03/spring-17th-street.html
Hello Everyone!
I’m new, gautami tripathy guided me here.
Here’s my contribution:
http://jeques.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/be-the-best-that-you-could-be/
I wish you well.
~ Jeques