Only GOD Can Make a Tree !

© Catskill Mountaintop Apple Tree in Spring ~ Undine DeFilippo 2015

This  apple  tree  with  last  year's  bird  nest  on  the  mountaintop  today 

 brought  to  mind  the  first poem  we  had  to  memorize  in  school. 

GOD  made  a  beautiful  world  for  us  to  appreciate

 while  we're  on  this  tough  old  planet  Earth.

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.  

                         
"Trees"   by   Joyce  Kilmer  ~ 1919