[Critique Group 2] reminder of pieces due

[Joan Myles]

Can't wait to be with you all!!
Joan and Aries

On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 7:09 AM Leonard Tuchyner via Group2 <
group2 at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:

> Hi group 2,
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> 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.
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> Leonard
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> Birds , Bees, and Wild Beasts Dine at My Garden
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> My garden is an Eden, where  life loves  to grow.
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> Vegetables and flowers  live there peacefully.
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> Gardens are a place of ruthless competition.
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> Growers must be  prepared to wage constant warfare.
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> Everyone seems to love a cultivated bed.
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> Beside the birds and bees and killer ladybugs
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> are aphids,  cutworms,  cabbage beetles , and  their ilk.
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> I struggle to do all I  caringly can
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> to preserve a balance in the land I cherish,
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> Without slaughtering Earth with ghastly toxins.
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> Deer, bears, beavers,  hares come to visit my garden ,
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> to sample a buffet of fruits and vegetables.
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> I bound my plot in a protective barrier.
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> Deer easily jump over, and eat my string beans.
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> Rabbits excavate under, and dine on beet greens.
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> Beavers  have been known to pilfer trees  for their lairs.
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> A bear helps himself to my blackberries.
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> I thank God  they are not kept within the fence ,
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> and by the way, squirrels have conquered the bird  feeders.
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> So, I grin and bear it all, while
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> waxing philosophical.
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> They must make a living some way.
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> We destroy  their natural  habitat.
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> But there is plenty left
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> in my garden, for all of us.
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> Leonard I. Tuchyner, Author
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> https://www.dldbooks.com/tuchyner/
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