Tattered With Joy
Tattered wings of the eagle Tattered fronds of the palm tree Tattered leaves of the banana tree Tattered shirts of kids playful. Soaring happy eagles wheeling in the sky Fruitful palm trees with nuts bountiful Fecund banana trees with seeds plentiful Gleeful toddlers filled with joy. Tattered with joy Betters perfection without Flee from it That deprives you of joy. Here is a poem about life and lifestyle of some people. They prefer living with the little they have with joy than chasing wealth and losing joy. There a lot of people with riches and pains but this set of people that this poem focuses on choose to be tattered with joy. This poem compares the lifestyle of these people with eagles having tattered wings yet soaring high than many birds, palm trees with tattered fronds yet with many nuts, banana trees with tattered leaves yet with many fruits and kids with tattered shirts yet gleeful and without worries. In the last stanza, the poetic persona prefers tattered with joy to...