| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Alison McKenzie on 01/30/09 at 04:14 PM Little things, lots of hope. That is a good thing! |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 01/31/09 at 10:09 PM Lots of stark images here - a sense of "they" taking without regard. I admire how you've ended this with hope amongst the trash. I like the brevity here and to think of a mighty sycamore growing gives a strong feeling for the future. |
| Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 02/02/09 at 05:53 AM Hope tends to start out small, right? Loved this. |
| Posted by Anne Engelen on 02/03/09 at 06:26 PM As kids we found this young tree growing on a garbage belt, took it home and now 30 years later my parents have this enormous cherry tree in their garden. Love your poem as much as that tree! |
| Posted by Anne Engelen on 02/03/09 at 06:26 PM As kids we found this young tree growing on a garbage belt, took it home and now 30 years later my parents have this enormous cherry tree in their garden. Love your poem as much as that tree! |
| Posted by Anne Engelen on 02/03/09 at 06:26 PM As kids we found this young tree growing on a garbage belt, took it home and now 30 years later my parents have this enormous cherry tree in their garden. Love your poem as much as that tree! |
| Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 03/26/09 at 10:08 PM From exaltation (the rains came)to despair (no more gardens) to hope (syacamore among the trash)in a few cogent lines. |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 09/07/15 at 02:57 PM Congrats on POTD! 2009 - how big that Sycamore could be by now! |
