Gum nut

closeup photo of the red gum flower on a gumtree surrounded by gum nuts and leaves — Kings Park and WA botanic garden

Flaunting a red skirt,
Cinderella of the trees—
eucalypt blossoms.

Layout

Landscape of Western Australia as seen from the window of an aircraft. The landscape below resembles the circuits of a computer motherboard. — Somewhere over Western Australia

Pieced out perfectly
as computer motherboard,
ariel landscape.

Comfy

closeup photo of a bushy green fern with a brown branch in the middle

Indulging themselves,
nestled in thicket of youth,
ageing ancestors.

Blast from the past

photo of a tree with a neon green light on it

We light up our trees
to recall how they once looked;
luminously green.

Shady

a canopy of banana trees as seen from below

Constantly shadowed
by a canopy of green,
life wouldn’t be so bad.