Category: Poetry Publisher: Ethical Society Press
ISBN-10: 0974364053
Pages: 191
Copyright: October 2008
ISBN-13: 9780974364056
Enjoy the wry and whimsical rhymes of an ancient poet alive in modern times.
Gerald Bosacker, poet and twisted tale teller lives in Arkansas, safely retired from the corporate world where he was miscast as Vice President of an international chemical company. He now does penance for his sins against the environment and excessive consumption of Earth's bounty with his poetry railing against pollution, poverty and political persecution with his insightful and accusatory poetry. Adept at seeing humor in disaster and chicanery, he is amusingly nasty.
Excerpt
WE ARE PLANTING
A tiny seed is wishful sown
in God’s hungry, eager earth.
It germinates, not on its own,
since warming sun must beg its birth.
If its roots reach deep enough
in somewhat loosened common dirt,
it nurtures from soil’s rotting duff
and comes alive in mystic spurt.
Our relationships are just like this,
and we expect, they fervent grow.
Dark clouds bestow sweet moisture’s kiss,
but can’t control what fates bestow.
As with anything that’s sown,
there comes a harvest we must reap.
Sometimes only weeds are grown
and we must learn which crop to keep.
