The Cherry Tree Who Visited an Apple Orchard and Decided to Stay

The Cherry Tree Who Visited an Apple Orchard and Decided to Stay

In the blowing-wind dusk the cherry tree waves

Far more than the orchard’s Anna-apple trees

Into whose company it has intruded itself

This party-crasher who has somehow moved in

 While the cherry tree waves its leaves about

A single cricket hidden in the grass

Chirrups an evening hymn of just one note

As the work-weary birds wing to the woods

 The last sunbeams have climbed up and away

And winked goodnight to this cherry-tree day

 

Original Poetry