Miniature trees <br />In shallow trays- <br />Pinched, <br />Pruned, <br />Sheared, <br />Twisted, <br />Wired, <br />To give them a shape- <br />Windswept, <br />Erect, <br />To <br />Create <br />An illusion <br />In many other ways. <br /> <br />In the name <br />Of beauty <br />And aesthetics, <br />Why interfere <br />With <br />Nature, <br />Let them be trees, <br />As nature intended <br />Them to be. <br />Trees <br />Have been worshipped <br />From <br />Prehistoric times, <br /> <br />They belong <br />In forests <br />And not dwarfed, <br />In a shallow tray <br />On a terrace.<br /><br />Mamta Agarwal<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bonsai-3/
