Boyertown PA
4-05-2026 12:38am

April 5: One-a-Day in Celebration of National Poetry Month

Trees are coming alive again and Kathy Kirk is celebrating their glory!  She shares, "My dad was the person who got me interested in poetry. He had a book entitled Magic Casements, compiled by George S. Carhart & Paul A. McGhee © 1931 that was filled with all sorts of poetry. He later gifted me with the book. Even as a youth, I loved trees (& brevity)...hence one of my favorite poems, still marked with a tattered piece of notebook paper is..."

TREES

I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's 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.

- Joyce Kilmer

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