Look at the dark board, hung up on the wall;
Many have learnt by its use, but not without white strokes
Left on its face. Where you'd attempt to cleanse it
From the characters upon it, it looks uglier and muddy.
Look at our earth, where it was richly green;
It seemed it needs not cultivation, but didactic bruteness.
Igwe Kalu
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/vi-look-at-our-earth/
