POETRY: RE-CREATION

RE-CREATION
By Bruce Wales


My soil evolves from spring to spring
From leaves and twigs my neighbors bring

With shreds of bark or scraps of cloth
So stewed and chewed by bug or moth.

And cardboard snips or garments old
Are layered deep for fungus, mold

Then, chipped and raked and laid with dew.
They’ll decompose - the earth renew.

Oh, worms and slugs will slime on deep.
They’ll slide and rise – bacteria keep.

The creeping fungi tentacles
Invade the woody cellulose.

Small pill-bugs armadillo-like
Will chew, proliferate germ-like.

Black crickets nip and chirp aloud
As green-stuff breaks down, earthen bound.

Tough weeds and thistles thickly lay
broad birthing beds for seeds to splay.

The grass seeds sprout to soon reclaim
And forbs and bush will do the same.

The tree and shade will moisten life
Bourgeoning growth, hey, life’s a-rife!

These are my friends –for heaven’s sake-
While here on earth such means they make

That forms the base for nutrients’ ride
in each backyard where veggies hide.

For there cucumbers and our corn
Will sun-ward climb when mantles shorn.

And berries plump up for the tongue
Thick watermelons swell for fun

The chives, potatoes, peppers, too
Once tended, eaten two-by-two

As pomegranates burst in pink
So grapes and cherries clump in sync.

Thus, weeds and waste, insects, debris
Comprise a food web thriving free.

As treasure, trash: they’re all confused
Since food and waste are either used

By creature, plant; with moisture pure
They’re ripe for appetite for sure.

One hardly treasures easy means
Once giv’n to him for what he needs.

Yet needed most are presents free
Like food for life, a saving spree.

And so I’ll eat my garden free
And save my coin from grocery.

I’ll build the soil and plant the seed
To answer body’s nutrient need.

My soil evolves from spring to spring
From leaves and twigs my neighbors bring


For the water, worms, soil and all life Bruce Wales 8-27-09