Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Brian Patten

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 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

www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/bp2-blade.htm