Mamta Agarwal - Bonsai

Miniature trees
In shallow trays-
Pinched,
Pruned,
Sheared,
Twisted,
Wired,
To give them a shape-
Windswept,
Erect,
To
Create
An illusion
In many other ways.

In the name
Of beauty
And aesthetics,
Why interfere
With
Nature,
Let them be trees,
As nature intended
Them to be.
Trees
Have been worshipped
From
Prehistoric times,

They belong
In forests
And not dwarfed,
In a shallow tray
On a terrace.

Mamta Agarwal

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