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2009 Poetree Contest Winners
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2009 Poetree Contest Winners
375 poem entries were submitted from 18 schools and several individuals.
Hannah Saltz, Hathaway Brown School, 1st Grade
Growing Tree
Tree tree growing tree.
Growing buds one by one.
Sprout sprout taller taller.
Swish swish in the wind.
Christian Bartram, Newton D Baker School of Arts, 3rd Grade 
Trees are important to me
I hope they never leave.
They wake up to help us breathe.
Why don’t we let them be?
We need them cant we see?
Nicole Fiorelli, Homeschooled, 4th Grade
Recipe for a tree
Take three cups of light green leaves,
Add a quart of fresh blue water Then a pound of wood.
Put all the ingredients In a bowl of nature.
Mix with a spoonful of air.
Let it bake In the sunshine
Until it is golden brown.
You can tell it’s done when animals from far
and near Come to the tree.
Serves only one,
The Earth!
Letitia Montes Westpark Community Middle School 5th Grade
Many Roads of a Tree
Every day when I look at a tree all of the branches look like
roads of different choices.
Some go one way and some the other.
Inside a tree are many tree rings.
Some consequences are big and some are smaller.
You need to think where ever roads lead you to. Think before
you do things you can do things that are wrong but at the time it
feels so right.
Follow the roads of a tree that make you happy.
There are so many roads of a tree.
Katherine Renaudin Harding Middle School 6th Grade
True Friends
I am old, Older than all who know me
I stand in a yard By a garage
In the middle of a fence
As I stand, I stand tall I dwarf all around me
The wind shifts my leaves The earth shelters my roots
And a girl sits at the base of my trunk Her short arms are
wrapped around me, Or as far as they can reach, anyway
I hear her say “Good morning tree”
I answer by telling her a fantastic tale
As I do every day
My leaves shake as I whisper A tale of life, trust, bravery,
and the bonds of friendship Of two friends and
their adventures Of a girl and a tree
She laughs What a pleasant laugh She smiles What a lovely smile
I drop an acorn at her feet And she plants it with care
With such love With such care
Just then I realize that as much as I need her She needs me as well
I shade her in the summer I give her leaves to jump in during the fall
I bring her cool winds in the spring Bud I do not know what I do for her
in the winter For I am asleep But I do dream of her of my only friend
She may be small I may be massive She may be young I may be old
But we are bound together tightly Tied up in the
undying bonds of friendship
Forever inseparable.
Dakia Smith Iowa-Maple School 7th Grade
A Place of Passion
A tree, a tree is a summer’s delight
Trees let me lay upon them and read.
With a summers glow and winter snow
A tree will always be with me.
Let your leaves turn colors
And your trunk grown old.
You’re wonders of life
That fills my soul.
One of these days
You’ll feel like a rose
To me I don’t care’
What you are on the outside
But what you are on the inside
Not a hollow tree
But a place where
I can let my soul
Be Free!
Mariya Denezhko Benjamin Franklin 8th Grade
Trees
The trees are big and tall
They turn colorful in the fall.
Trees are here to live
And oxygen they give
In the spring their colors are bright.
In the summer they shade the light.
But in the wintery air
Their branches are bare.
Christian Bebee Whitney M. Young High 9th grade
Special Place Poem
In the tree my friends and I go
To climb, talk, and play
Until we hear our mothers’ call
In the tree we stay
We see who can climb to the highest point
The quickest, and in a flurry nobody ever falls off the tree
That’s the least of our worries
The tree is a very quiet place
Where we can all have fun
We don’t hear parents, or animals,
or babies, Or even the shot of a gun
The tree was the only peaceful place
I knew Until the guys came
and cut in down Back to the crying,
gunshots and endless yelling
And back to the permanent frown
Sixto Torres Early College High School 10th Grade
Tree
How would you feel if you were
the branch of a tree, Just a bough
or a twig that nobody thinks about or sees?
In no way exception and in
no way exquisite, No particular reason
for anyone to pay you a visit.
Even deep troughs and small hills
are thought about more, And you’ll never
know what they’ve got in store
For you as the people make an impetuous
decision To cut down all the trees
starting with one incision.
You would think that they’re smarter
or in some way judicious,
But when you see all of the workers
and trucks it’s suspicious.
There’s nothing so disparaging,
making you feels so small,
Then the sad fade to clack
as you’re struck and you fall.
Heather Russell Carl F Shuler 11th Grade
Lonely Tree
I sat there watching a lonely tree
Wondering if it staring back at me,
Seeing all the colors from the fall breeze
All the different colors of the leaves,
Seeing all the leaves blow away
While my reality just fades away,
Seeing the silhouette while the sun sets
This is one place I will never forget,
This is the tree I planted so long ago
This tree holds the truth that
no one will ever know,
As I leave this place once again
I say good bye to my only true friend.
Arthur Lawrence Carl F Shuler 12th Grade
Treemendous
Trees are majestic and ever so green
Whether husky and tall or short and lean
They sway in the breeze calm and free
Of the plant world the envy they be.
There towing height and beautiful form
While leaning and swaying in a thunderous storm
Even when their colors change and their leaves fall
They remain most beautiful and exuberant of all.
Rooted deep within the grounds of the earth
From the planting of a seed to a glorious birth
And the rising of a simple tree
To the beauty of Nature as it be.