Thursday, March 25, 2010

Trees


THINK that I shall never see 
A poem lovely as a tree. 
  
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest 
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast; 
  
A tree that looks at God all day,         5
And lifts her leafy arms to pray; 
  
A tree that may in summer wear 
A nest of robins in her hair; 
  
Upon whose bosom snow has lain; 
Who intimately lives with rain.  10
  
Poems are made by fools like me, 
But only God can make a tree.
                                   --Joyce Kilmer


I wonder what lives inside? 
An Acorn Woodpecker?
Maybe an Owl? 
It could be a Squirrel.
It's too far up for me to climb, 
so I think I'll have to wait and see.

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