Jeff Kyser Poet Quatrain

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.

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This also contains the same embedded Carl Sandburg quote.
The poem is “ok”, but I liked the “Keola - Rhyme” better.

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L Milton Hankins March 8, 2022 at 8:38 PM I know this isn't easy to accomplish. I used the Tennyson quote, "Sunset and evening start," etc. I hope you entered this in the contest. It is quite well done. Jeff Kyser March 8, 2022 at 8:47 PM I don’t like that we had to name it “Keola - Rhyme” but I liked that poem a little better, same quote. Thanks, I agree, this was harder than expected.