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Trees are important

Throwaway lines.  Yesterday I found a sheet of paper on the kitchen floor, slightly crumpled, having been discarded from a backpack.  My youngest son said he wrote this poem for a royal tree-planting event ages ago, and he forgot to hand it in:

Trees are important

trees are like bees
come out in summer
go back in winter

wen bees get honey
we get apples or pears
or lemenons or oranges

and you get joy
from when you laugh
or smile

you get trees for homes
for squrles, owls, birds
and much more

thoe we are taking away there habitat

when we destroy someone’s habitat
or home
we destroy part of ourself

by Sam (8), written to celebrate the official planting of a special tree in Windsor. He thinks a member of the Royal Family did the honours, but he can’t recall who!

Sam wrote this weeks before he brought home Fantastic Mr. Fox from the school library: strangely significant in a spooky way. Check it out!