Robert Urban Poetry & Prose

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THE HORTICULTURE OF HUMAN CULTURE

                         Certain species of plants

                        can be forced into flowering

                        simply by depriving them the nourishment of water

                        It seems prolonged drought

                        eventually wakens within these flora

                        the fear that Death may be close at hand

                        Thus threatened, they hasten to blossom...

                        mustering all the hidden energies necessary

                        to ensure fulfillment of Creation's Great Urge

                        Now, is there not a parallel here

                        that bears upon our own parched nature

                        in today's unhappy world?

                        After having impoverished ourselves for so long

                        of all enthusiasm, achievement and rebirth...

                        of all that refreshes and nurtures

                        our garden of humanity...

                        do we now hope

                        this odd method of self-cultivation

                        might finally frighten

                        a renaissance into bloom?

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