Trees

 
Trees
 
 
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 leafty 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.
 
 
From Grees and Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer