The bear puts both arms around the tree above him
And draws it down as if it were a lover,
And its choke cherries lips to kiss good-bye
Then lets it snap back upright in the sky.

His next step rocks a boulder on the wall
He's making his cross-country in the fall,
His great weight creaks the barbed-wire in it's staples
As he flings over and off down through the maples.

Leaving on one wire moth a lock of hair
Such is the uncaged progress of the bear,
The world has room to make a bear feel free
The universe seems cramped to you and me.

Man acts more like the poor bear in a cage
That all day fights a nervous inward rage,
His mood rejecting all his mind suggests
He paces back and forth and never rests.

The constant click and shuffle of his feet
The telescope at one end of his beat,
And at the other end the microscope
Two instruments of nearly equal hope.

And in conjunction giving quite a spread
Or if he rests from scientific tread,
Tis only to sit back and sway his head
Through ninety odd degrees of arc it seems.

Between two metaphysical extremes
He sits back on his fundamental butt,
With lifted snout and eyes(if any)shut
lie almost looks religious but he's not.

And back and forth he sways from cheek to cheek
At one extreme agreeing with one Greek,
At the other agreeing with another Greek
Which may be thought,but only so to speak,
A baggy figure,equally pathetic
When sedentary and when peripatetic.

p.s.this poem was written by one of the finest
writers ever known to Man.{Robert Lee Frost}.
Certainly one of my all time fav.Author/Poet
Written by Robert.L.Frost/Humbely submitted by Cybear.

Thanx Cybear!!!
this one would be a Grand addition to "Mother Earth" poems thread,for
all and any who wish to contribute to saving our planet,by opening the
eyes of the masses,to the lives of our wild creatures great and small,
and the plight our world is in these days...Mother Earth...

thanx also the authors of all poems within that thread,
their help will ride the winds of time...
forever in our minds, hearts and souls.....M.