Tag Archives: maple

Nov25

 
 
 

How can I say no
 
to the falling maple leaves?
 
My day too will come.

Nov6

 
 
 

Japanese maple—
 
now that frost has come, the leaves
 
turn a deeper red.

Nov4

 
 
 

Wild west winds buffet
 
my neighbor’s sugar maple,
 
stripping its red leaves.

Nov2

 
 
 

My neighbor’s maple
 
dons its autumn finery–
 
leaves of fiery red.

Oct22

 
 
 

fading crimson leaves
 
falling from the maple tree—
 
melancholy me

Jul18

 
 
 

from oak to maple
 
to silk tree to birch–the dove’s
 
erratic flight path

Dec11

 
 
 

Last days of autumn—
 
leaves from my neighbor’s maple
 
gather on my porch.

Oct27

 
 
 

My next-door neighbor
 
curses every leaf that falls
 
from my maple tree.

Oct9

 
 
 

Autumn solitude—
 
a brittle maple leaf falls
 
from the mother tree.

Sep29

 
 
 

With autumn’s return,
 
leaf-weary maples and elms
 
shrug off their burdens.