To honour World Environment day (which was held in Wellington this year) as well as Arbor day which both coincided on the date 5 days ago here is a reminder that sometimes there are sweeter things than reading blogs on a computer screen:
I think that I shall never see
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 written by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
~Joyce Kilmer, "Trees," 1914
-Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. -
1 comment:
oh brilliant poem, truly,
and sweet how WED was in Wellington, NZ's apparently pretty up there in greenness
even if we go down the nuclear power track
like the passionate old man in our physics lectures today
he was so cool.
he'd come up and answer people's questions about nuclear in the funniest and most emphatic way, while avoiding the actual answer you were searching for in a clever old-man-wisdom way.
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