Question

A poem in which the words are arranged to look like the subject is

a concrete poem.
a thematic poem.

Answer 1

Concrete poem (words arranged to look like a tree)

leaves whisper
sunlight threads the green
birds stitch songs into shade
wind traces slow calligraphy
a crown of small suns
breathing, bright
dappling
a leaf
a leaf
a leaf
trunk
rings
sap
slow
roots
drink
dark
earth

Thematic poem (about the same subject — the tree as witness and memory)

A house of quiet patience, rooted in soft forgetting,
it keeps the seasons in slow ledger: a ring for every year.
The children who carved initials into its skin are gone,
but the initials sleep in the curve of bark, read by sap and time.
It holds winter’s spare prayers and summer’s loud green laughter,
offers shade to the hurried, a place for a lover’s hush.
When lightning takes a limb, the tree keeps the scar like a story
and learns its language anew: loss is another name for growth.
Under its canopy the small world is made bearable — breath by breath,
a slow, steady lesson in staying and in letting go.