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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

QOTD - Joyce Kilmer

“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, Trees

Trees
by Joyce Kilmer

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.


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