David,
I second Jenny's thanks. A splendid poem. Your poem opens the door to other Ents with their poetr. All are equal in the eyes of the trees. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 7:27:22 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [ENTS] Re: good winter tree poem Ha! Yes, so many of the November Girls have already unlaced and unfastened the leaves so the merest wind will carry them away. But what of the more modest and/or prudish beeches and certain oaks? Not so easy for a bit of wind blowing in and out of town! Great poem, thanks so much for sharing it. Jenny -----Original Message----- From: David Kelley <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, Dec 19, 2009 5:22 pm Subject: Re: [ENTS] Re: good winter tree poem James, Jenny, other interested ENTS: I might have been channeling Williams a couple of weeks ago, when I thought through the attiring and disattiring of trees in the fall. My take was a little different. I think there is nothing like the ENTS, or the erudition of the posts exchanged here, as Jenny averred. Thanks for opening the cyber waves to tree poem posts. Here is another, still in revision but in need of comment, I guess. -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] DAVID B. KELLEY Winters, California On Dec 19, 2009, at 1:24 PM, James Parton wrote: Jenny, One can hardly have a post on tree poetry without including what might be the most famous tree poem of all. TREES by: Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) 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. JP This poem also earned him a great tract of old growth forest which bears his name. The Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. On Dec 19, 2:57 pm, [email protected] wrote: Ryan, That's one of the greatest poems about winter and trees and thoughts of life. Certainly one of my favorites. Thanks for posting it. I think I've posted this one before but, I like it so much I'll post it again; Also Robert Frost Dust of Snow The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow >From a Hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. Jenny -----Original Message----- From: Ryan McEwan < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, Dec 19, 2009 11:47 am Subject: Re: [ENTS] Re: good winter tree poem Hi all, Some in my lab just sent this to me as a response to the snow falling here in SW Ohio.... Stopping by woods on a snowy evening by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM, < [email protected] > wrote: Bob, Up in your part of the world, a literature professor definitely has to understand Emily Dickinson! Thank you for asking. Steve is the ENTS Poetic Interpretation and Vegetative Identification expert. (ENTSPIVI). And I hope he was impressed with the erudite posts we exchange here... Jenny -----Original Message----- From: Bob < [email protected] > To: [email protected] < [email protected] > Sent: Fri, Dec 18, 2009 10:59 pm Subject: Re: [ENTS] Re: good winter tree poem Jenny, Tonight Monica and I had dinner with a literature professor friend of ours from Trinity College. I asked him about the Emily Dickinson poem. His interpretation was similar to Steve's. Bob Sent from my iPhone On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:25 PM, [email protected] wrote: James, ENTS, I have seen the Lord of the Rings movies, but I actually don't know the Tolkein Treebeard poems and stories well. I love the poem. It is very satisfying to start to understand more specifically the tree imagery in poetry. It makes it a lot more meaningful. Maybe someone can help me with the following poem by Emily Dickinson. Why does the 'junior foliage' of a younger tree disrespect the crow? Why does the crow prefer the 'antiquated tree'? I don't completely understand this poem, but I love the words. "An antiquated tree Is cherished of the Crow Because that Junior Foliage is disrespectful now To venerable Birds Whose Corporation Coat Would decorate Oblivion's Remotest Consulate." Jenny -----Original Message----- From: James Parton < [email protected] > To: ENTSTrees < [email protected] > Sent: Fri, Dec 18, 2009 12:30 pm Subject: [ENTS] Re: good winter tree poem Jenny, I love tree poems! If you have ever watched the Lord of the Rings movies, you probably have heard the poems and stories of Treebeard, the ent. One of them he tells the hobbits while he is carrying them through the forest always brings tears to my eyes when I hear it. In the book of Fellowship of the Ring, Tom Bombadil is always singing something interesting and is one of my favorite LOTR characters, sadly he is totally omitted in the movie. ENTS, send more " treeish " poems! "When spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough; When light is on the wildwood stream, and wind is on the brow; When stride is long and breath is deep, and keen the mountain air; Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is fair!" The Ent and the Entwife by J.R.R. Tolkien. James Parton On Dec 18, 8:18 am, JennyNYC < [email protected] > wrote: Winter Trees, by William Carlos Williams All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold. Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] = -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
