A newer friend I’ve made in Portland this year gifted me with a perfect moment when he recited a poem to me that I had never heard before. As a person who loves both God and trees, I instantly fell in love with the words he shared.
Root&Connect seems like the perfect space to share this poem along with pictures from what I consider to be a tree sanctuary that I was blessed to visit in Cambodia at Angkor Thom. This was a very special place!
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 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.