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 COPING Poems:  1.  Life on Earth ( on this page )  2.  On Stretching an Already...3.  Getting On/Riding the Waves 4.  The Wheel of Life 

                                       

                  

  

                                                       Life On Earth 

                           Is it in my garden?

                      All plants therein lavished with care

                            To nourish and to pamper;

                       That some are abloom and blazing

                                 In myriad of colors

                          To tease the nectar suckers.

                      

                     Where there are foliages of velvet

                            In hues of emerald and gold

                            Yet, why are others sulking -

                               Ungreen with envy,

                         Wrinkled, withered, and dying,

                       As a stricken man succumbs to rot?

 

                     I have no favorites, as Allah has none.

                        Has Mr. destiny, then, poked his

                    Lethal tetanus fingers into my domain?

                            Or are some plants wiser

                      In that they have learned to store

                            In their stems and roots

                       All the rainwater they can hold

                          Until the next summer rain?

 

                     Or have they been taught in time

                       To grow straight and strong

                           But still pliant enough

                       To sway with the buffetings

                           Of a stormy weather?

 

                              Is Life on earth

                            Life in my garden?

                                                        ALV, 8/22/87

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