Poet Tree at the Lower School & Poetry from Meagan

Our Poet Tree has bloomed gloriously at the Lower School! The April Poetry Month showers of wonderful contributions from students of all grades (Thank you Steiner poets!) brought May flowers of lovely poems to adorn the Ellie Klopp Library board amongst the butterflies...

The Poet Tree in bloom after Poetry Month

We look forward to sharing more about these poems in a future post. In the meantime, we'd like to leave you with a poem by Meagan Margerum-Leys, in memory of this beloved Steiner HS student and poet, and reflect upon the wonderful legacy we have from her collected works and the Stone House Library at the High School which was dedicated in her name on the date of her golden birthday on March 16, 2005...

Why is it so rare to see

A poem as lovely as a tree?

Poet-trees grow forests bright

See them dancing in the night.

Yes, only God can make a tree,

But sometimes fools will do for me.

A poet-tree that bends and sways

Can stick with you for days and days.

The fool that made it looks away,

He'd rather have you think a while

Than ruin his terrific style

Explaining it in prose and cons

The sand, the salt, the nights and dawns.

"And why sea is boiling hot

And whether pigs have wings."

~by Meagan Margerum-Leys / May 29, 2004

From a collection of Meagan's Writings on the Meagan's Corner website

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