Trees Need Not Walk This Earth by David Rosenthal

S5 E7: Celebrating National Poetry Month April 2025, Canada celebrates National Poetry Month with a heartfelt theme: family. This theme invites us to explore the intricate connections that define our lives, from the bonds with parents and siblings to the love shared with pets and soulmates. It encourages reflection on friendships that feel like family, even the nurturing of plants that bring life into our homes.Poetry serves as a lens through which we can examine the shape of family, highlighting the intergenerational impact of our ancestors and how their legacies influence the generations that follow. Through this exploration, we find a deeper understanding of love, support, and the shared experiences that unite us all.Trees Need Not Walk The EarthBy David RosenthalTrees need not walk the earth For beauty or for bread; Beauty will come to them Where they stand. Here among the children of the sapIs no pride of ancestry: A birch may wear no less the morning Than an oak. Here are no heirlooms Save those of loveliness, In which each tree Is kingly in its heritage of grace. Here is but beauty’s wisdom In which all trees are wise. Trees need not walk the earth For beauty or for bread; Beauty will come to them In the rainbow— The sunlight— And the lilac-haunted rain;And bread will come to them As beauty came: In the rainbow— In the sunlight— In the rain.This poem is in the public domain.Trees need not walk the earth For beauty or for bread; Beauty will come to them Where they stand. Here among the children of the sapIs no pride of ancestry: A birch may wear no less the morning Than an oak. Here are no heirlooms Save those of loveliness, In which each tree Is kingly in its heritage of grace. Here is but beauty’s wisdom In which all trees are wise. Trees need not walk the earth For beauty or for bread; Beauty will come to them In the rainbow— The sunlight— And the lilac-haunted rain;And bread will come to them As beauty came: In the rainbow— In the sunlight— In the rain.This poem is in the public domain.Recitation by Rebecca Budd, Music by Epidemic Sound "Uncertain Changes" by Yonder Dale https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/0kuVtGgetF/