In Response to Joyce Kilmer’s “Trees”

I think that I shall never witness
A poem as lovely as photosynthesis

Where sugar is made without a fight
From carbon dioxide, water, and light

You might come to synagogue to get your Torah fill
But only in leaves will you find the pigment chlorophyll

That miraculous chemical that in sun or in rain
Serves as the base of the entire food chain

Let’s strive remember that biological scheme
When we say Baruch Atah Adonai HaMa’ariv Aravim 

O, poems are made by Average Joes
But only God can make glucose