Truemors
Towering Tulip Poplars in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in the western corner of North Carolina.
Joyce Kilmer was a poet and veteran of WWI, best known for his poem, "Trees." This tract of virgin Appalachian hardwood forest (13,055 acres) is the largest virgin forest in the east coast. The towering tulip poplars and hemlocks are awe-inspiring.
"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's 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 (1886–1918)
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