grasses

 

Grasses
growing anyhow -
Rough, tough tufts along the edges
and on windy skyline ridges.

Brown and fine and loose and long,
neglected by the levelling noise,
forcing its life into long-forgotten corners.

I too have a right.

Unsown, unwanted, in neglect,
it yet exists.
Its beauty burns the heart and eyes,
a challenge of a simpler kind,
not seen or heard by trained, taught minds.

I also have a right,
my life is of a simpler kind;
not tended and not recognised
beside this level, cultured desert.

 

(© 1996-2008 Maria L. Grist)

 

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