Thursday, July 18, 2019

"Trees" (1913) . . . Tree (2019)


  I think that I shall never see
  A poem lovely as a tree.
  A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
  Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
  A tree that looks at God all day,
  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.
  Poems are made by fools like me,
  But only God can make a tree.         - Joyce Kilmer


   48th Street, Sunnyside,  July 18, 2019:





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