Wide Garcia is a co-founder of the Maui Live Poets Society and is the fearless leader of our group who meets in the Makawao Library on the third Wednesday of every month. He had this to say about this poem he wanted to share:

“I watched a woman in Lahaina raking leaves, and the wind kept blowing the leaves back.  It made me think how automatic she was being and perhaps attached to busyness.  After this thought became my first line, I later saw a man mowing just half of the lawn  at Lahaina Library Park. I discovered that the lawn was half owned and operated by Maui County and the half owned and operated by the State of Hawaii.  It reminded me that humans complicate things and cause waste. All the divisions in society that hide hunger and starvation while we destroy fruit.

“Hence; the poem ‘Leaves in the Wind.’ ”

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LEAVES IN THE WIND

She rakes leaves in the wind

He mows half the lawn

The other half is owned

By someone else

Whose trees

Whose pre-ripened fruits

Have been wasted

By safety pruning.

 

These trees

Divide the lawn

Bordered by concrete

Walkways and walls

So that the starving children

Cannot be seen

Or can see

The wasted fruit

And the woman

Who rakes leaves in the wind

 

By Wide Garcia © 2016

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picture credit:  via Facebook (with owner’s permission)

[Please note:  If any of you would like to contribute a poem to this page, please let me know by leaving a comment below….  I’d be happy to hear from you.]