YOUNG POETS YOUNG POETS joomag[2466]222 | Page 56

NATURE One day a peasant who Sells flowers and other stuff Decides to give his son a life lesson, But being the poet he was He makes this lesson into a poem. And it goes like this: Mimosa sand roses as a horse supposes Are the causes of nature’s serene beauty. And if it lose sits causes then that disposals Horses’ sources of joyful duty. Because when i gatherall the flowers Then carry them on backs of my horses They rapidly call for mariposas And mariposas bring theirspouses. See, it’s just the way we live There is not much we can take or give. Every thing we have sold or boughten, Be it rice or be it cotton, Whether you assume or you deem,