Life Is a Garden

Carl Sandburg Life is a garden; What’s not to like? You can’t grow an onion without proper soil. You peel back the rocky top and remove it, You haul off the dirt next; there’s no lack of toil. One layer of compost to place at the bottom, another of oak leaves, well past their time. And sometimes, delightful, the straw from a horse barn: earthy, nutritious, amendment sublime. You tend, and you water your beautiful garden A fence of protection enhanced when you pray But He who made onions put snakes, without pardon, And there will be weeping when plans go astray. ————— This also contains the same embedded Carl Sandburg quote. The poem is “ok”, but I liked the “Keola - Rhyme” better.