I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree that may in Summer wear…
Abandoned flip-flops in her hair.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But God and man have made this tree.
Inspired by Joyce Kilmer’s classic poem, Trees, and the shoe tree I discovered on my walk along Cleo Street Beach this morning. (Background mural by artist Lorey Shaw Hellige.)
I love it!
Me, too! It’s whimsical & practical, although I do wonder if anyone’s ever really thought to look for their lost/abandoned shoes here…
This is so cool!
Isn’t it, though? It reminded me, just a little, of the bottle trees in the South.
You are about the only person I know who would see a tree like this, admire it’s beauty, photograph it, write a poem about it, and then blog about it. Kudos! I loved it.
Ha! That may well be true. 😉
PS this also could be a children’s picture book… just saying! Remember when folks actually had shoe trees?
I do! That’s where I got the idea for the title. 🙂
And YES, it would make a really fun picture book!