Connecting Branches – A Treeku Word Jam

[sooZen]

It was such a cloudy beautiful day in Phar Lepht on Friday the mtmynded one and I had to take a ride...

pecan groves
outside the car window
branches wave

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the cottonwoods squat
along the Rio Grande
~ancient Indians~

(whoops! now counting the syl-la-bells )


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mesquite branches (pronounced mess-keet-tay)
hanging husks of dried beans
sparrow harmony

(enough of that counting stuff...hah!)


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salt cedars
cling to the river bank-
illegal aliens

...


clouds over the mesa
nut trees wave in unison
hello rain


okay...I had a haiku surge!

[judih]

mesa minded
pecans carpet rainwet grass
kibbutzniks gather

[Ann Bingham]

red bloom grows
above satin green leafy stem, thorns prick me
hurtful rose.


bountiful plains
no more grow the wheat fields, drought strickened
where is the food?

window sees, eyes feel
winter white abounds freely
life is crystal whole.

[sooZen]

hey dude, pass the jam...

o NO! I am gonna have to leave soon and I am all alone. Hah!

well, in that case I will jam a lone jam:

allepo pine
a one gallon pot
sprung up

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pomegranates
dried shells of fruit
bird ornaments

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aspens shiver
white trunks in winter
leaves take a dip


haikuing on a lake without an oar...

[sooZen]

hey whamajammers...kewl!

yellow roses
crowns of thorns
Jesus!


gathering of tribes
'standing people' stretch
cloud hidden

I didn't see youse guys before I was "typed"

[sooZen]

spider webs
pinon a loom
a lacy moon

(actually the second line would'a been better as 'pinon weaves' or wood it? Hah!)

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long-horned owl
knows where the doves nest-
the aleppo diner!


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mockingbirds sing
bird pepper bush
springs

[mtmynd]

shrouded moon
over the pinon
shows glow

_____

4:30 a.m.
trees still sleep
this son arises

_____

if trees would
they really wood

______

[Ann Bingham]

and wood they should
burn bright, burn hot
or would could I

[sooZen]

before the sun
the son also rises
cornball haijinks!

...


a brief flash
moon shows her breast
cloudy can-can dancer

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if trees could talk, they wood... (Cecil B.)

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under the pine
smoking a cigarette
you puff up

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limbs embrace
pinecones in high branches~
love out of reach

[Ann Bingham]

no moon, no suns
only brides
in red dresses.

sweeping sleepy long
hard the night
soft the morning.



venturing from the point?



the son sleeps,
the daughters sleep
my heart is at rest.

[sooZen]

kentucky woman
rests on her laurels~
children branch out

Did I spell 'laurel' right? Hah!

[mtmynd]

from birth to death
never moving
only swaying

________

tree pruning
dead wood brush
clean view

_______

[Ann Bingham]

ignorance breeds, abounds
almost, dimwitted at times
laurals? no dictionary found.


sunbursting multicolored
velvet smooth
beautiful dancer she be.


soft white mitten kitten
one whole, one half that
purring silently to sleep.


pine bare needle point
sharp, pricking, picking, alass
I draw in away.

[sooZen]

bristlecone pine
bent by the wind
cliff notes

Yes...I guess I did spell 'laurel' right but I have a handy-dandy dictionary at my finger-types. I used laurel because it is a hardy tree.

moonlight sonata
serenading a lulluby
the cradle rocks

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curled into a C
cat does the alphabet
middle way

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beautiful trees
hugging the sky
ergo no ego

...

MT:

Daddy's wooden bird
thrown in the brush pile~
the Phoenix rises

[Ann Bingham]

from ashes comes beauty
momma has done well
poppa rose above the roots


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skyscraper tall
thick the base
mind soars in trees.

winged thing
flys high, flys low
rest at my doorstep.

window closed
a mind out of sink, sighs, breaths, renews the soul
ends open