Tenderly <br />under the tree's shade <br />the poet wrote; <br /> <br />wishing <br />that his poems <br />might have the grace <br />of the tree. <br /> <br />the tree heard <br />the poet's wish <br />and gave itself, <br />to share his book <br />leaf for leaf <br />for as long <br />as his poems lived <br /> <br />and so it was<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0240-the-poet-and-the-tree/
