[Critique Group 2] reminder of pieces due

[Leonard Tuchyner]

Hi group 2,

Tomorow your  pieces are due.  I hope your summer is going well. If you have hangoevers of unfinished business that you  need to attend to, let me know. We may have to make another adjustment in our schedule.In the meantime, my piece is included below.

Leonard



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Birds , Bees, and Wild Beasts Dine at My Garden 

 

My garden is an Eden, where  life loves to grow.

Vegetables and flowers  live there peacefully. 

Gardens are a place of ruthless competition.

Growers must be prepared to wage constant warfare. 

Everyone seems to love a cultivated bed. 

Beside the birds and bees and killer ladybugs

are aphids, cutworms,  cabbage beetles ,and  their ilk.

 

I struggle to do all I  caringly can 

to preserve a balance in the land I cherish, 

Without slaughtering Earth with ghastly toxins.

Deer, bears, beavers, hares come to visit my garden ,

to sample a buffet of fruits and vegetables. 

I bound my plot in a protective barrier.

Deer easily jump over, and eat my string beans. 

Rabbits excavate under, and dine on beet greens. 

Beavers  have beenknown to pilfer trees  for their lairs. 

A bear helps himself to my blackberries. 

I thank God  they arenot kept within the fence ,

and by the way, squirrels have conquered the bird  feeders.

So, I grin and bear it all, while

waxing philosophical. 

They must make a living some way. 

We destroy  theirnatural  habitat. 

But there is plenty left 

in my garden, for all of us. 

 




 
 
Leonard I. Tuchyner, Author
 
https://www.dldbooks.com/tuchyner/

 
  
 
 

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