“The Tree There once was a tree much smaller than me. It’s now older than me that little tree. There it goes reaching above me up to the sky there once was a tree much taller than me reaching up very high. Above me reaching the sky there once was a tree poor old tree […]
Poem_Samuel N. Baxter
“I Love a Tree When I pass to my reward. Whatever that may be, I’d like my friends to think of me As one who loved a tree. I may not have a statesman’s poise Nor thrill a throng with speech But I may benefit mankind If I set out a beech. If I transport […]
Poem_Robert William Service
” Trees Against The Sky Palms against the sky, Failing the hot, hard blue; Stark on the beach I lie, Dreaming horizons new; Heart of my youth elate, Scorning a humdrum fate, Keyed to adventure high – Palms against the sky. Cypresses glooming the sky, Stark at the end of the road; Failing and faint […]
Poem_Robert William
“Trees Against The Sky Pines against the sky, Pluming the purple hill; Pines . . . and I wonder why, Heart, you quicken and thrill? Wistful heart of a boy, Fills with a strange sweet joy, Lifting to Heaven nigh – Pines against the sky. Oaks against the sky, Ramparts of leaves high-hurled, Staunch to […]
Poem_Richard Pemberton
“The Old Tree The old beech tree, so green and gray! How oft I’ve heard thee, whispering say, With beckoning branches waving low, “”Rest here, where cooling breezes blow!”” And in thy shadows deep and dark, How oft I’ve touched thy cool gray bark; And still I bless thee, old beech tree, For old sweet […]
Poem_Rainey Birthwright
“Craggy Tree You are so monumental to me, With sun behind you truly shine, Scraggy tree, birds love to nest In your knobby boughs, so blest, The winds that roar in open fields Blasting no fright under your yields. How spry you be my gracious one, Good stay for wings in burning sun, I love […]
Poem_Michael S. Glaser
“The Presence of Trees I have always felt the living presence of trees the forest that calls to me as deeply as I breathe, as though the woods were marrow of my bone as though I myself were tree, a breathing, reaching arc of the larger canopy beside a brook bubbling to foam like the […]
Poem_Meish Goldish
“Growth of a Tree I’m a little maple, oh so small, In years ahead, I’ll grow so tall! With a lot of water, sun, and air, I will soon be way up there! Deep inside the soil my roots are found, Drinking the water underground. Water from the roots my trunk receives, Then my trunk […]
Poem_Marian 1
“Woodland (Triolet) Sunrays are slanting through the trees While the sweet tiny bluebells sway In sweet summertime’s blowing breeze Sunrays are slanting through the trees While the sweet tiny bluebells sway In the warmth of the tender day Sunrays are slanting through the trees While the sweet tiny bluebells sway By Marian”
Poem_Marian
“Forest Friends Sun rays slant through the forest air, There’s a boy sitting on the ground with dragonflies in his hair, The little animals come up to him; Because they’re not afraid of him. A little fawn sits behind his back, Nothing doth he lack, Even rabbits sit beside him; He always smiles and is […]