Our Green Friends (Concrete Poetry)

Our Green Friends

by INGRID de KLERCK

Tall tree,
as you stand
there motionless
softly waving arms
that wear the essential
part of life on earth: leaves
that contain chlorophyll, green
gold, converted into oxygen by day
Without our green friends, we would
cease to exist. Therefore we have to
treat them with respect and care
and enjoy their company, fruits,
the shadow they cast for us
so we can hide from
the heat and the
relentlessly
beating
down
sun
rays
on a
hot
sum-
mer
day.

*Concrete poetry is a type of poetry where the format takes on the shape of the subject.

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