TREES by Joyce Kilmer (response)

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    Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914.

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‘Trees’ by Joyce Kilmer was written in February of 1913 and was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.Joyce Kilmer’s poemis made up of twelve lines which are separated into six sets of two lines, or couplets. Kilmer has chosen to conform the poem to a consistent rhyme scheme of aa bb cc dd ee aa.

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 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.

GOD’S REPLY TO THE POET (response)

A tree with leaves made out of love
So blessings rain from up above

I am the creator of all
Trees sway and dance to heed my call

The trees may bend with my command
The vast and colored pretty land

So far and wide this land shall strive
All it need is your love and time

For it to grow abundantly
And to see it blooms wondrously

I gladly this give this gift to thee
A precious tree coming from me