Life of A Tree

    Open House
    If I were a tree
    I'd want to see
    a bird with a song
    on a branch of me.

    I'd want a quick
    little squirrel to run
    up and down
    and around, for fun.

    I'd want the cub
    of a bear to call,
    and a porcupine, big,
    and a tree toad, small.

    I'd want a katydid
    out of sight
    on one of my leaves
    to sing at night.

    And down by my roots
    I'd want a mouse
    with six little mouselings
    in her house.--

    http://www.ncsu.edu/project/treesofstrength/poems.htm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Fisher