Bonsai: Big is Not Better
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem
……
Who says that small is not as good as large?
Would you prefer a splendid sailboat or
The heavy, hulking hull plate of a barge?
Would you prefer a gilded dollhouse door
In Louis XV style or chunky chairs
With big fat legs and frame? The very small
Is often far more beautiful than concrete stairs
No matter how impressive or how tall.
We do not need a giant redwood tree
To win our hearts. A tiny tree inside
A pot, a cigar box-sized one, may be
More elegant and better than a wide,
Wide cypress on those hills Beirut might love.
An ostrich is not pretty like a dove.