Week 7: Thursday A Blessing or A Curse

Before his untimely death in World War I from a sniper’s bullet,Joyce Kilmer was the leading Catholic American poet of hisgeneration. His strong religious faith and dedication to thenatural beauty of God’s world are clearly seen in his most famouswork, Trees:I think that I shall never seeA poem as lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst 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 wearA 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.