A nice poem to start off your week! Today, we’ve chosen a poem from our new fall title, Lend a Hand: Poems About Giving, to share with you:
Trees
I doubt
many people
will pay much attention
to a few scrawny saplings
on this harsh city street.
But if any of these people
are here years from now,
enjoying the shade
in the heat of the summer
or the dazzle of color
on the branches in fall,
maybe they’ll remember
what this street once looked like
and go to a place
in need of some trees,
and plant a few saplings
like I’m doing today.
If you’re interested in planting trees in your area, check out some of these great organizations:
TreePeople (Based in Los Angeles)
Million Trees NYC (Based in New York City)
The Nature Conservancy – Plant a Billion Trees (National)
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