their shadows tell the stories
the trees themselves
cannot utter
Revelation
autumn disrobes the landscape
revealing the elegance of limbs
Leaving Leaves
trees undress
and launder the land
with color
Seeing Through
trees teach
how letting go
makes room for more
Embrace
encircled by color
fall’s final embrace
In The Rain
shorter days
sweeten
the crabapples
Morning’s Moon
the night’s light
escorts me to
a pink dawn
Flow
fallen to its resting place
the branch still possesses
the spirit of movement
Topsy Turvy
Rooted in the sky
branches dig into the air.
Shade
Take haven
on the hot days
under a green canopy.
Woodland Haiku
The woodpecker leaves
his poetry on birch bark.
Accumulation
End of May snow.
Trees bend in sorrow.
Rose-lipt Maidens
Fleeting is spring’s splendor
so sweeter is the view.
Leafing Out
The trees proclaim themselves
in a profusion of greens
painting a verdant landscape.
Instigators
fiery redheads
maples flaunt color
daring a frost
Opening
The maple unfurls
her first blossoms
opening all possibilities.
Corn Field
Leafless trees dream
of growing rows in full fields
Frosty Morn
The pond has broken winter’s icy hold
but the land struggles to shrug off the frosty morning cold.
Songstress
Make your home near mine
and sing your song of joy
at each day’s new breaking.
Delicate
Branches blush as buds begin to swell.
Subtly color creeps into the landscape.
Surely
Morning makes its way through bare branches.
Every ray of sun brings us closer to the greening of spring.
The Island of Vermont
Landlocked and wooden
this moai
is a tree deity.
Flurry
In my spring dreams
it snows flowers.
A Rose Is A Rose
Tree bark grows
a lichen rose.
Send Off
Day departs
painting the sky
riotous colors.
Reprise
Snow laden pine
bows to the birch
winter takes a curtain call.
Falling Up
The blue blue sky
frees me
from winter’s grey gravity.
Vision
The birch’s
omniscient eye
watches all.
Discovered
To be covered
in the glitter of the season
is to be revealed.
Gift
Another day begins
with the light of the divine.