[Vision2020] Joyce kilmer

[lfalen]

Thanks Tom
Could you post Rouge Bouquet
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:13:25 -0800
To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Joyce kilmer

>  
> 
> TREES
> 
> by: Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
> 
>  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.
> 
> Seeya later, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Post Falls, Idaho
> 
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
> 
> - Unknown
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 21, 2012, at 10:58 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Trees by Joyce Kilmer is one of my favorite poems. He wrote "Rouge bouquet" three days before he was killed during the World War I (1918). It waw written as a tribute to a group of his fellow soldiers who were killed. He read it over there graves. 
> > After he was killed, it was read over his grave. I wanted to post it here but do not have the skills to do so. Perhaps someone with the request skills can do so. 
> > Roger
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