On this day in literary history in 1913, American poet Joyce Kilmer wrote his famous poem “Trees.” Joyce Kilmer was an American poet born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1886. He graduated from Columbia University and began his career as a writer and journalist. In 1913, he published his most famous poem, “Trees,” which was an ode to the beauty of nature.
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The ocean strokes my face, says to me,
“Transform the first light into beauty
High in the flood of compassion
Wait a day, and be a gentle tempest
Give space to the translucent blue
Rich as a sun in a hundred heavens”
Wings of brilliant blue
Resting on the leaf, silence
Moment of beauty
Night sky, glowing blue
Essence of colors feels true
I bathe in the light
Down in the field watching close
Hoping for a miracle
Searching for wholeness, never out of reach
The constant push-and-pull of emotions
Ebbing tides of epiphanies and stagnation
It’s always right there – inside of us
A walk through the neighborhood
Among swaying trees and greenery
Sometimes you forget nature could
Soothe your senses and bring you back
To the center of everything
The seasons change, as do people
We get stagnant and we grow
Sometimes sad, sometimes gleeful
The summer heat and the winter snow
The seasons change, and so do I
Moods shift like the colors of leaves
Crisp autumns and hot Julys
We give and we also receive
We are connected
The trees, they are made of us
We made of the trees
Waves of neon green
The Northern Lights are like a
Gift from the heavens
Texture of a leaf
Smooth and tender in your hand
Sprouting from the tree
Floods of memories slap me
as I walk the neighborhood,
epiphanies connect obscure
stars in my mind’s galaxy –
birds chirp, my feet patter on paths
amid tree-lined streets and greenery
of springtime,
the earth changing, imperceptibly,
preparing to host summer
like a house-warming party –
