Trees by Joyce Kilmer - Memorial Forest

in nature •  6 years ago 

While I was on my Yoga retreat, we went on a hike in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest.

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It is a beautiful forest that inspired the poem 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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Getting back to nature was wonderful for my soul, but I didn't write a poem. I took pictures.

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I have always loved that poem.