{"id":1557,"date":"2013-02-01T03:46:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T03:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2017-07-11T03:29:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:29:46","slug":"the-tree-poems-by-phil-boiarski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-tree-poems-by-phil-boiarski\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tree Poems by Phil Boiarski"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Tree Poems<\/h1>\n

by Phil Boiarski<\/p>\n

I<\/p>\n

On the fly leaf,
\nI leave words.
\nImplied leaves
\nflutter past, green
\ngone brown, slow
\nleaving so soon.<\/p>\n

Let go, I write,
\nwe are fated not
\nto be left out
\non a limb, made
\nnot to stick around.<\/p>\n

II<\/p>\n

Laughing aspens
\nshake their golden
\ngarments, drying
\nin the wind, dying
\nin a sigh of fluttered
\nwings, flapping
\njoyous end to their
\nold awakening.
\nMaples, hickories,
\npoplars, apples
\ncelebrate their coming
\nnakedness by putting
\non their brightest dress,
\ndancing in this lessening
\nlight as nights grow
\nand roots contemplate
\nsnow falling like
\nthe leaves.<\/p>\n

III<\/p>\n

The spirit of trees
\ncomforts, cradle
\nto coffin. In wood
\nshelters, on oaken
\nchairs, we hide
\nbehind doors.<\/p>\n

The grain in wood,
\nan image of time,
\ncrosscut rings
\nemanating out
\nfrom the heartwood,
\nfrom the moment
\nseed took root
\nin the sunlight.<\/p>\n

Shade becomes
\nbony shadow but
\nthe light at night
\nbeholds all things
\nwith tenderness,
\ncaresses, softens
\nhard edges, offers
\nthe eye surcease
\nin the subtleties
\nof darkness.
\nIV<\/p>\n

Morning breeze
\nbrings the sound
\nof rain falling
\nnot from skies
\nbut leaves.
\nClouds, having
\nmoved on,
\nlook back
\nand hear
\ntrees whisper
\nthe soft, wet
\nstory of their past.<\/p>\n

V<\/p>\n

Underfoot, the crush
\nof leaves gives off
\nwhispers of summer sun,
\nhush of starlit nights,
\nmusty essence of time
\nin their becoming dust.<\/p>\n

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\nPhil Boiarski has been writing and publishing for more than forty years. His work has appeared a number of times in The Paris Review, The California Quarterly, The Rocky Mountain Review, The Ohio Journal, Aspen Anthology, Indiana Writes, Handbook, Green House and numerous other publications. Recently, his poems were translated and published in Nowa Okolica Poetow, a Polish literary journal, OFF_ Antologia<\/em>, a bi-lingual literary magazine published in London & Warsaw; Private Photo Review<\/em>, an Italian poetry\/photo magazine, and The Tangled Bank<\/em>, an Australian anthology celebrating Darwin’s bi-centennial.
\nwww.boiarski.com <\/a>
\nwww.boiarskitheblog.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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