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November 6, 2017

Trees

Tulip poplar, Wikimedia Commons

I came across this poem for the first time when visiting the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Grove in the Pisgah National Forest of Western North Carolina while leading a backpacking trip in 2000. Kilmer acknowledges that he is the student and his God has given him a marvelous poem to contemplate in the work of a tree.

I wonder how often we remember that the God who thought up tree rings as a data storage information system and simultaneously constructed them to serve as a rich tapestry of beauty, has much to teach us in His Creation. When a scientist uncovers a new bit of the complex puzzle of life it is a moment to celebrate. Let us raise up children who glorify God by reveling in his poetry, be it His written word or His trees.

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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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