excellent poem, dan!  i, too, loved our acacia trees.  but you knew that.

It’s always nice to read poetry by someone who actually reads poetry; you can always tell the difference.

Well, those are just too cool. We don’t have them here. Sort of remind me of bougainvillea. Found a link that was rather interesting about them. http://www.anbg.gov.au/acacia/

We have cottonwood trees that shed what looks to be, wisps of cotton during the spring. You can see floating bits of white fluff lazily wafting back and forth in the breeze much like the feather in Forest Gump. Sometimes, it’s so thick, it looks like snow.

Don’t resist the urges. The poetic ones anyway.

See, like I said before, such a romantic.

sometimes only poetry offers the means to convey the extent of emotion and imagery stuck in our head. thanks for sharing yours.

I liked that poem a lot, and I’m not poetic in any way, shape, or form.  Nice.