A Blade of Grass......

I just came across this poem (a friend fwded it to me) and just had to post it....such poems deserve more than just a place in my inbox....poems which speak such needed a wider platform than just a few fwds.....

Here goes....

"You ask for a poem.
I offer you a blade of grass.

You say it is not good enough.
You ask for a poem.

I say this blade of grass will do.

It has dressed itself in frost, It is more immediate
Than any image of my making.

You say it is not a poem,
It is a blade of grass and grass
Is not quite good enough.

I offer you a blade of grass.

You are indignant.
You say it is too easy to offer grass.

It is absurd.
Anyone can offer a blade of grass.

You ask for a poem.

And so I write you a tragedy about
How a blade of grass
Becomes more and more difficult to offer,

And about how as you grow older
A blade of grass
Becomes more difficult to accept."

- Brian Patten