Saturday, September 6, 2025

Darwinianism Stalks the Suburbs - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

Darwinianism Stalks the Suburbs

 

God giveth the earth the good green grass to grow

An unceasing samsara of life and death

Catalogues of life in their millions of forms

Work out their mandalas of being in that sea

 

Winds weave waving forests of tender blades

Chlorophyll makes magic from water and light

The apex predator is the lowly bacterium

Humbling at last great glorious carnivores

 

And there the eternal cycles of seed and sower

Are shredded on Saturdays by a suburban lawn mower

No comments:

Post a Comment

Darwinianism Stalks the Suburbs - poem

  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Darwinianism Stalks the Suburbs   God giveth the earth t...