The Garden
Robert Rittel 1960 (Koblenz)
The great architect provided the perfect garden,
given us the responsibility as nutrient warden.
The exchange of energies of great intelligence,
divine organism and operational reference.
Wisdom and care through renewable sustain,
life principle and healing to obtain.
Beneficent pleasures by nature designed,
seeking tenement of existence refined.
A tiny part of mind is used entire,
the rest is awaiting the evolution dire.
The soul needs organs of impressions,
from without to create progressions.
The garden fair in daily appetite need,
where mind becomes a pleasure thinking seed.
The body and its intellect where each kind,
wants its own uniqueness and resemble find.
Expensive farmed food without nutrition,
ignorant convenience and its faulty condition.
You are by root and all in all,
given a body in the garden, a love of form.
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Submitted on February 25, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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