The Silver Sage
Are you ready? Come on along and read some homespun poetry as well as a jot and tittle regarding distinguished poets and their works. Gael offers a positive balance of her own nostalgia notes and poetic meanderings with those of others. [Editor's note: Gael no longer contributes to Silver Planet, but we have made her archived blog entries available as a service to our readers.]
Only God Can Make a Tree
Gold and rust and shades of red—shimmering imitations of reality reflected in a pond. Trees dressed in autumn colors from various back roads of New Hampshire and ‘round about the dusty mountain trails of Colorado.
Enjoy the photo and Kilmer’s oft-quoted poem about trees. . . .
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Trees
Joyce Kilmer, 1886–1918
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest A tree that looks at God all day, A tree that may in summer wear Upon whose bosom snow has lain Poems are made by fools like me, |
Please click The Colors of Autumn to view more fall foliage!
By Gael Stuart
The Silver Sage Blog
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