Sycamore Memories-Win

"To hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. " William Shakespeare," Hamlet 1601." Window covered by a sycamore tree Constant friend of my snowy Maple days Memories spring as insects on a tree Turn my gloomy days in glorious days Hippocrates got his inspiration For research in medicine to begin Buddh sat under it for meditation The enlightenment of mind to attain. Desdemona sat sighing under it In agony to hear willow song treat Flying to Egypt Mary stopped a bit Crann ban “Money tree” in Irish spirit To demystify health, to personalize To me sycamore is to poetize. ** The notion of a "mirror held up to nature" has been taken over for any mimetic theory of art — the idea that art should represent reality and nature as closely as possible** +++++++ Revised and Reposted May 4, 2014 Form : Shakespearean sonnet in Pentameter Dr.Ram Mehta Contest: Shakespeare by Frank H. ========================= Dr. Ram Mehta Date: 4/19/2011 Fourth Place win in : Contest:The Tree sponsored by Constance La france-A rambling poet ========================= * I wrote a sonnet Maple Memories in 2000 while living in Windsor-ONT and was posted on 6/29/2005 on PS as Maple Memories. The present poem is re-written for the contest. ** Maple Days- Maple is the national tree of Canada. * Buddha is pronounced one syllable