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Mallory Horner’s Tree and
Plants Poem Anthology
2014
Maple Tree
Birds sing in the branches
Leaves dance in the wind
Roots knot in the ground
The fun might soon begin
Leaves whistle in the breeze
Calling me to climb
Bigger than the other trees
Surrounding the maple
Up high in the maple tree
Waves of leaves sway towards me
Never had I seen such beauty
Bird’s song echo through the breeze
Up high in the maple tree
Oak Tree
Reaching way up to the sky
Homes to squirrels and bugs and birds
Who settle down after they’ve had a fly
Chirping from that big oak tree
Peering down, down
D
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To me
Birds dance from branch to branch
Carrying the birds from their last catch
Way up there in that oak tree
Pine Cone
While we know
They are just a big seeds
That grows into
A bigger tree
Wood shells protecting the treasure
Inside
Apple Tree
Pink blossoms
In the spring
Followed by apples
In the fall
Thick and mossy branches
While we know
In the apples is a seed
That grows into
Another apple tree
Reaching for the sky
When sunlight returns
Kapok tree
Towering tall above
The broken-down soil
Feeding off of light
That shines through the canopy
Sun licking the top leaves
That provides shelter
For animals
Roots grasp the ground surrounding
Drinking off of water
That runs in the dirt
Kapok tree towering tall above
The broken-down soil
The
Echo Tree
Always coming back
Endless buzzing of the bees
Roots knotting under sunbeams
Chattering birds talk and have it
Repeated
Repeated
Repeated
Thorn bush
Piercing thorns attack from all edges
Barriers made of blades
As you dash through the hedges
You’ll find them all over the place
Maybe near a group of trees
Under a thorn bush?
What a terrible place to be!
In a forest
Deep and dark
There you’ll find
a forest lark
Follow the lark
And you see
Lots of thorns
But no leaves
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