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    This poem describes how the trees transition from winter to summer. In winter, the bare branches form a stark alphabet, but summer brings green leaves that modify the branches' strict forms with splashes of color. The trees' limbs now move freely like a woman's body, their new growth praising nature's desires and love's power through the season. In summer, the trees' song sings itself above any words that could describe the natural beauty.

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    poem by william carlos williams

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    This poem describes how the trees transition from winter to summer. In winter, the bare branches form a stark alphabet, but summer brings green leaves that modify the branches' strict forms with splashes of color. The trees' limbs now move freely like a woman's body, their new growth praising nature's desires and love's power through the season. In summer, the trees' song sings itself above any words that could describe the natural beauty.

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    The Botticellian Trees

    Uploaded by

    Adrienne Moody
    This poem describes how the trees transition from winter to summer. In winter, the bare branches form a stark alphabet, but summer brings green leaves that modify the branches' strict forms with splashes of color. The trees' limbs now move freely like a woman's body, their new growth praising nature's desires and love's power through the season. In summer, the trees' song sings itself above any words that could describe the natural beauty.

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    The Botticellian Trees

    The alphabet ofthe trees


    is fading in thesong of the leaves
    the crossingbars of thin
    letters that spelledwinter
    and the coldhave been illuminated
    withpointed green
    by the rain and sun
    The strict simpleprinciples of
    straight branchesare being modified
    by pinched-outifs of color,
    devoutconditions
    the smiles of love

    unit the striptsentences


    move as a womanslimbs under a cloth
    and praise from secrecy
    quick with desire
    loves ascendancy

    in summer
    In summer the song
    sings itself
    above the mues words
    William CarlosWilliams

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