A Tree Design
A tree is more than a shadow
Blurred against the sky,
More than ink spilled on the fringe
Of white clouds floating by.
A tree is more than an April design
Or a blighted winter bough
Where love and music used to be.
A tree is something in me,
Very still and lonely now.
Credit
From Caroling Dusk (Harper & Brothers, 1927), edited by Countee Cullen. This poem is in the public domain.
Author
Arna Bontemps
Arna Wendell Bontemps was born on October 13, 1902, in Alexandria, Louisiana,
Date Published
01/01/1927