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Offline Dryad

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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #28 on: June 12, 2007, 04:33 AM »
see whether or not
branches reaching to the sky
hold my body's weight
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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #29 on: June 12, 2007, 06:17 AM »
That's a good one, Dryad, but you didn't tag on the last line.

of the mother oak should be your first line. Then someone will tag onto your last line. Would you care to try it again?
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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #30 on: June 12, 2007, 07:30 AM »
apologies!  :coffee I must be half asleep. Of course!

Of the mother oak
but an acorn setting forth
falling into life
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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #31 on: June 12, 2007, 08:56 AM »
Now you've got it!!

falling into life
like a blossom from the limb
of a dogwood tree
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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #32 on: June 12, 2007, 09:12 AM »
of a dogwood tree
I remember standing there
saying my goodbyes
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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #33 on: June 12, 2007, 09:19 AM »
saying my goodbyes
underneath the yellow pines
on the Indian Trail

(Sorry, I couldn't help but put in the Indian Trail when I thought of the yellow pines: From the Official 2007 Indian Trail Centennial Poet.)
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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #34 on: June 15, 2007, 09:23 PM »
On the Indian Trail
I see pine trees col0ring
and my eyes turn blue
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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #35 on: June 16, 2007, 06:24 AM »
and my eyes turn blue
reflections of beryl spruce
silhouettes of calm 
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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #36 on: June 16, 2007, 10:27 AM »
Silhouettes of calm
verdant movement up above
fragrant canopy
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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #37 on: June 16, 2007, 10:55 AM »
fragrant canopy
dense fortress of protection
hiding place for squirrels
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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #38 on: June 17, 2007, 10:59 PM »
hiding place for squirrels
poets armed and on the prowl
blood among the leaves     (after my avatar lol)
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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #39 on: June 18, 2007, 06:24 AM »
blood among the leaves     
sunset paints her crimson strokes
at day's conclusion
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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #40 on: June 21, 2007, 04:22 PM »
at day's conclusion
clouds creep 'cross darkening sky
shadows fall on trunks
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Re: Haiku Tree Tag
« Reply #41 on: June 21, 2007, 08:21 PM »
shadows fall on trunks
ageless giants dignified
sway throughout the night
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