Bonsai Tree Poem

Bonsaiis obviously a nod to haiku and it also summaries the idea nicely.

Bonsai tree poem. Something that folds and keeps easy son s note or dad s one gaudy tie a roto picture of a queen a blue indian shawl even. A work of artifice by the american poet marge piercy is a small poem about a large subject. With lengthened life span. The good die young.

However we know today that women have just as much potential as men do. To me the poor are like bonsai trees. All that i love i fold over once and once again and keep in a box or a slit in a hollow post or in my shoe. Containment is the strict boundary between the bonsai and the rest of nature.

It represents the oppression of women their inability to grow and how society has kept them tied to ancient customs. This hold of social customs on women is so strong that releasing them will require fierce force and empowerment. So if one wants to look at the metaphors in the poem the tree growing 80 feet tall is the potential of a woman but society then was whittling them down and making them only 9 tall less than 1 of their potential. Life is a garden of contradiction.

All that i love. The tree had grown taller much to big now for its pot and badly needed pruning before its roots would start rot. A woman wrote this poem in the 1930 s when women were supposed to stay at home and clean and have kids. Primarily the purpose of bonsai is contemplation for the reader and the rewards of ingenuity for the author.

Only the soil base you provided was inadequate. Yet an oak tree can be held. In the shade of my bonsai tree with your chewed up shoe and i would lay down right beside just to be with you. So here a poem for celebrating.

Poor people are bonsai people. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six inch deep flower pot you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree but it is only inches tall. The bonsai tree in the poem is a potent symbol and represents several things. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted.

In the palm of the hand. Edith tiempo starts out her poem by describing what she does with love. The poem bonsai by edith tiempo is about love and how people imbue certain objects with love for a person and those objects become the symbol of love. But its special need for life giving dirt i would have to invest.

Weeds seed and flourish. Meta a bonsai poem like the tree is a work of artifice or rather a natural thing manipulated. Bonsai form has relations with not only haiku. She folds it to make it smaller so that she can keep it in a box hollow post or shoe.

The poem describes how a bonsai tree which in nature has the potential to grow to an enormous.