Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
Posted in Travel Adventures on 01/21/2012 12:14 pm by DonnaNew Year’s day, we went for a hike through Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest located about 15 miles from Robbinsville, North Carolina. It is home to a magnificent forest with enormous yellow-poplars that are over 200 feet in circumference and stand over 100 feet tall! The Memorial Forest is a tribute to WWI war hero Joyce Kilmer whose poem “Trees” inspired many.
Trees
I think that I shall never see,
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against 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 wear
A 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.
~ Joyce Kilmer
Photo above taken by my brother-in-law Adam who hugged that tree for this awesome shot.
It’s all good. ~ Donna