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Temple Trees

Scott Michael Potter 1966 (Grand Rapids, MI)

Free verse
earth creates trees
three special trees one before, one now and one after
trees that give and take
beings emerge to see the fires and beyond
unshackled and free they dance
impregnation flies in the air
one is life the other mortals
both have breath filling them
both have breath leaving them
one is listening to serpently wiles
how to hang in the balance flies
another change claims craggy chance
whose beingness others may ponder upon
taking and giving trees
whose place is above to belower and way up beyonder
trees keep the earth

Asherah

About this poem

This is another FORM poem and is to be CENTER justified. It includes three new words in my Deftnitions: serpently, belower, and beyonder.

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Written on February 18, 2022

Submitted by ScottMPotter on May 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGHHIJEKABL
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 541
Words 96
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
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