Homage To The Leaf
Homage To The Leaf
Miracle Man
10/28/2024
From buds they sprout in early spring,
providing the tree with its summer wear.
They shade the songbirds as they sing,
and provide an escape from summers glare.
Powered by sunlight photosynthesis occurs,
they’re living food workshops for the tree.
Each coming spring this phenomenon recurs,
they provide a shade for drinking iced tea.
From naked branches leaves sprout and cling,
Little attention is given until colors turn.
For only once each year they do their thing,
Each autumn, I rake, I bag, mulch or burn,
“Poems are made by fools like me,
but only God can make a tree”
Joyce Kilmer
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