the lollipop tree
burl ives
one fine day in early spring
right in the yard behind our house
i planted a lollipop stick
i watered it well and watched it carefully
i hope one day that stick would grow to be a lollipop tree
then one day i woke to find a very lovely sight
a tree all full of lollipops had grown in the dark of the night
i sat beneath that wonderful tree and looked up with a grin
and when i opened up my mouth a pop would drop right in
winter came and days grew cold as winter days will do
not one little lollipop grew
the twigs were bare as bones
but when i broke the icicles off
they turned to ice cream cones
how my eyes could believe