Willow Why Do You Weep Poem by JoAnn McGrath
Willow Why Do You Weep
As I watch from my window sill
and look bryond the rolling hills
My thoughts travel to a place and time
Where my heart heaves sublime
I saw the willow weeping low
It's saddened heart long bestowed
I had to wonder why it wept
And the answers that it's weeping kept
Willow why do you weep?
What is it that you think you need?
Could it be because your dispirited and dark?
That you feel you've not left your mark.
Could it be that in your somber state
You've overlooked your own estate?
Your mournful melancholy ways
have left you in such disarray
Can you not see how others see you?
Your beholding beauty for all to view
Your generous and bestowing ways
will help you grow to see better days
Weary willow do not weep
for your wise and wonderful roots run deep
24 April 2007
Revised 7 Aug 2008
This is a beautifully written poem, JoJo. I have given it a 10.
I love weeping willow trees, they we're fun to picnic under when very young. Dang they sure could do a job on peoples pipes though. Good poem. Had never thought of them as sad before, but good write and now I've learned something new. Trying to watch AI here and read and write at same time.marci
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/25/2024 5:23:56 AM # 1.0.0.1119
I like the way you express human emotion through the characteristics of a Willow tree. Best of all, I loved the way the poem gave hope. Sometimes spirits can lifted by positive praise from an onlooker. The last line was wonderful. '10'