Tag: trees

Excess

Photo of a giant tree trunk, its branches cut off.

“Branches” seems surplus;
limbs of giant ancient trees,
cutting “arms” sounds bad.

Giants

Photo of a slender tree on Mt. Eden summit.

Their brittle branches

taking over the valley

flowering giants

Twisty

Photo of a row of large leafless trees extending across a walking path in a park.

Waving twisty limbs
in my park, casting magic—
deciduous trees.

Soak

Photo of a tall gum tree, the golden colour of the sunset on it.
Gum tree at sunset

Soaking up sunshine
basking in the winter glow
gum trees in the park

Leafless

Photo of a row of leafless trees in a park as seen through the window of a bus.

Long and lanky ghosts
standing still outside my bus
brittle and leafless