What Joyce Kilmer poem can be used to remember on Memorial Day?
the day it all began “i think that i shall never see a poem lovely as a tree”…. those were the lines from a poem which marked the beginning of my love for poetry i recall that day, so clear in my mind as if it were only yesterday well almost… but anyway it was my third grade class assignment to find a poem we’d like to recite because of my love of trees, you see I read this one with somber delight the teacher commented and smiled after listening so patiently then told us each to write a poem and so began my poetry in those days poems meant rhyme to me and all the rest who ever heard of a poem that didn’t i set out to write my best please don’t ask how my poem went i don’t remember, though I’ve tried all I can tell you is it was about a tree a beautiful old tree that died it probably bordered on plagiarism since it contained these lines, you see ‘i think that i shall never see a poem lovely as a tree” by Dee Garner August 16, 2002 Author notes Since posting this poem I’ve managed to r
