Oak a Mighty Tree
Nature plays a role,
role in her capacity,
capacity always with much love
love flowing over, causing so much flooding.
Flooding is a disaster so many times for some,
some tiny acorn seed washed downstream floats onto fertile soil.
Soil spouts out new life, a mighty oak tree is formed, important regrowth.
Regrowth playing a vital role in forest ecology with oaks,
oaks having tough leathery shells survived many mighty knocks,
knocks helping to crack the shell, too heavy for the wind.
Wind does not help oak trees with germination.
Germination maybe with squirrels,
squirrels planting nuts serve oaks.
Oaks a mighty tree.
Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley
Cortes Nonet – invented by Josephine Ann Louise Cortes-Love aka MajesticRose on AllPoetry, March 2012. It was inspired by the original Nonet.
14 lines (2 stanzas, 7 lines each)
First stanza syllable count as follows: 5/7/9/11/13/15/17
Second stanza syllable count as follows: 17/15/13/11/9/5
The last word of each line is the first word of the next line. (word form)
The first word of the second stanza can either be the last word of the first stanza OR a new word
The poem can rhyme or have no rhyme at all. Centred.