Mar. 22/11

A poem from my book entitled Slices of Life. I had this booklet published and copyrighted in 1997, while residing at Elliot Lake, Ontario.

I would like to share this poem with your reading subscribers. I've recently written about 15 more, and plan to have all poems (approximately 61) republished if I can find a publisher willing to do them. They deal with all aspects of life (birthdays, anniversaries, war, death, loneliness, seasons, etc.).

Life's Gifts

What value is our life
If we haven't learned to love
The gifts of our creation
Sent to earth from God above.

Can our ears perform full service
If we never let them hear
The lovely sounds of nature
From God's creatures everywhere?

What use are our mortal eyes
If they've never learned to see
A friendly, red-winged blackbird
Playing gaily in a tree?

Can our nostrils be of value
If they haven't learned to smell
The perfumed scent of flowers
That grow on Earth so well?

And what use are our tastebuds
If our tongues have never touched
Sweet honey made by busy bees
Produced so freely for all of us?

What value is our body
If we haven't learned in life
That the gifts of God's creation
Can be tasted slice by slice?
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