The Reason Bamboo was Created

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The long thick tubes that rise and dominate

Were first created by a certain God,

Perhaps an Oriental one whose fate

Required him to be oddly to be overawed.

Gods do not like to lose their sovereign power

But this creation forced divinity

To lean against the ordinary flower

And petal beauty.  His affinity

Assumed a masculinity of length

Of ages, holding off the femaleness

As long as he could manage it.  His strength,

Triumphant, stretches wide utter maleness.

  The stands that he created right across

    The globe cause him to acquiesce to loss.