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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.)

Karen Edmisten is hosting Poetry Friday this week.

Published by Stacey Shubitz

I am a literacy consultant who focuses on writing workshop. I've been working with K-6 teachers and students since 2009. Prior to that, I was a fourth and fifth-grade teacher in New York City and Rhode Island. I'm the author of Craft Moves (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016) and the co-author of Jump Into Writing (Zaner-Bloser, 2021), Welcome to Writing Workshop (Stenhouse Publishers, 2019), and Day By Day (Stenhouse, 2010). I live in Central Pennsylvania with my husband and children. In my free time, I enjoy swimming, doing Pilates, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and reading novels.

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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