Tree Haiku
(Bloomsbury)
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All silvery silk,
its ball-gown is billowing:
the Monterey pine.
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A tall shady cave
filled with invisible song:
a group of old yews.
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Those great wars do not
touch it, nor those great poems:
the ancient gingko.
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Christina Egan ©2022
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Only gingko-trees survived
the atomic bomb at Hiroshima;
Goethe wrote a much-quoted
poem about a gingko-leaf.
The “invisible song” was
perhaps of the goldcrest,
which I spotted with delight
at the same site another time.
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Gingko biloba. Photograph by CS76, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons








