Tenderly <br />with its soft leaves <br />the tree shaded the poet <br />as he wrote <br /> <br />and as its leaves fell <br />and the year turned <br />the tree wished <br />that it might be reborn <br />as a book of poems <br /> <br />and so it was<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0241-the-poet-tree/
