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Poetry Friday: I Am a Tree

Stacey Shubitz

This poem comes from the book Earth Lines: Poems for the Green Age by Pat Moon.

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I Am a Tree
I am a tree.
Like you
I …
One difference between us two
Is that
You need me
More than I need you.

Click here to read the whole poem. (The … represents the part that I omitted for copyright reasons.)

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Published by Stacey Shubitz

Stacey Shubitz is a K-6 literacy consultant and former elementary teacher. She is the author of CRAFT MOVES and other professional books on writing workshop. Her forthcoming book, MAKE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WORK FOR YOUR CHILD WITH DISABILITIES (Guilford Press, 2026), empowers parents to navigate the special education system.

4 thoughts on “Poetry Friday: I Am a Tree”

  1. I subscribe to your blog and love using the ideas to spur my own in the classroom. Coming off 2 snow days last week, I think I will use this poem for a mini lesson on point of view and see if we can brainstorm all the ways we depend on trees. Maybe it will trigger a poem or two in the kids on finding other things we are so dependent on in our world. Would tie in very nicely in science to the over use of natural resources.

    Thanks for the great ideas!

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