Winter Poems

By

Gypsy Joy.

In the Pacific Northwest

Mother Nature creates her best

On spruce, birch and other trees

Where the burl it seems

Grows with the trees sometimes in a cluster

The invasion is not considered a tree buster.

There’s no real concern here

Since the growth does not kill the tree

Thought off by the science media

As a tumor caused by fungi, insects or bacteria

Transmitted by leafhoppers or aphids

No one is sure that’s what it is.

The plant tissue begins life as a gall

It may stay small or become massive, strong and tall

The artists and scientists do not loth

The spherical woody growth

They love to see it grow on the trunk of a tree

It provides work and stimulates science and creativity.