Thursday, April 24, 2008

Happy Arbor Day!



On Tuesday I published the following:

Earth Day?


I don't celebrate Earth Day. I don't need a day to celebrate the world. I celebrate Arbor Day. It is the United States' original Earth Day. Arbor Day this year is April 25.

Today is Arbor Day. In celebration of this day I submit the following:

Trees
by Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see,
A poem as lovely as a tree.


A tree who's 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.

Support the Arbor Day Foundation

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