Joyce Kilmer Facts #20

DID YOU KNOW?

While his signature poem was “Trees,” written in his Mahwah house on February 2, 1913, poet patriot Joyce Kilmer wrote a total of 87 poems in his short lifetime,  including two entitled “Easter” and “Easter Week.”  The first is a four-line verse of his visual impression of the day:

 “The air is like a butterfly

 with frail blue wings.

The happy earth looks at the sky

and sings.”

The second poem centers on the Easter Irish uprising against the British in 1916.

(Provided by the Joyce Kilmer Society of Mahwah)