That silent tree on winter hill
will it speak again come spring?
I cannot hear while winter's breath
is driven away from it still.
Soon we hope for that spring day
when new growth can be shown
to the world around in green glory
in the Creator's time and say.
It is ours to keep this tree
in the care that it deserves
from time of planting to this day
and the future days to be.
This is our Kentucky Coffeetree, one of many different trees that are set aside as what we call Legacy Trees. These are planted in remembrance of someone and to honor them. It looks nearly dead in February but it will look like this in the summer:
Linked to Poets and Storytellers United: Writers’ Pantry #8: We Like Multiples of Three
