Blushing Oak

Autumn’s breath unto his neck
Did tantalize the ancient oak
Whose heart was stilled beneath her air
Although his leaves began to blush

About This Poem

Style/Type: Structured: Western

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: U.S.A., USA

Favorite Poets: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman. I’m enamored by the work of lyricists such as Robert Hunter, John Barlow, John Dyer Baizley, and Tom Marshall just to name a handful.

Comments

Lavender

2 years 8 months ago

Blushing Oak

Hello, Tim
The personification of this ancient oak is beautiful - such a strong, sturdy tree experiencing something so tender and gentle. I love the idea of the leaves blushing. Beautiful!
Thank you,
L
(Is this Western?)

Jackweb

2 years 8 months ago

Yes

Very good poetic reflection. I like the way you personified it. Beautiful!
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RoseBlack

2 years 8 months ago

Excellent write

You never disappoint! I love how you use Autumn and the tree to display attraction and the reaction to that attraction.

Rosewood Apothecary

2 years 8 months ago

Thank you

You’re so spot on.

Lemme turn you on to the other layer. This couple here are both mature and yet the love is young; even new feeling, thus all the blushing. On a personal level I really feel the intimacy between myself and my wife is just becoming mature or ripe after 18 years and we are in the “harvest” mode as evidenced by several of my other poems.

Then if you’re looking for something a bit more risqué…a cool confident much older woman, flirting whispers into a much younger man’s ear. Which he is awkward to process.

Your choice really but you like the first option because then I’m the one blushing.

Tim

RoseBlack

2 years 8 months ago

Of course

Always fun to make the man blush!

lovedly

2 years 8 months ago

very few men blush

they do so behind bushes when they wish to do........
lol
Happy be you
MR BLUSHER
YOU