Did you know that I watch for you
when I’m in my car?
That I see you from afar,
your glorious crown rising high above
the canopy of lesser trees?

Did you know that I notice – 
I ponder you as you transform,
your limbs a blinding bleached white in winter months,
then mottled shades
of brown and gray and faintest green
as chlorophyll surges
up and down and through your sturdy trunk in
spring and summer?

What is it that inspires me, that
captures
my imagination?
Your splendor one of nature’s many
gifts.