Day 24 ~ Let’s Write a Tree Poem for Arbor Day for #NationalPoetryMonth and 30 poems in 30 days!
Today,
the last Friday of the month of April is National Arbor Day. So, let’s write
poems about trees. Use any format or no format at all, your choice.
Pretty
much everyone is familiar with this poem by Joyce Kilmer. This poem is six couplets
strung together. Remember? Couplets are two-lined poems with rhyming endings.
But choose any form we have done already, or one you find online, or just free
verse, but let’s glorify some trees today! Cheers!!
TREES
A poem lovely as a tree
A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
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.
© 1913 Joyce Kilmer
(© 2016 Mixed media tree by Stephanie Abney)
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