A Poem by Doris Peel

The video reminded me of this poem by Doris Peel which I copied from The Christian Science Monitor years ago.

Couldn't it be
  that animals who gambol
on sunlit slopes  --
  lambs, colts
    calves still wobbly
are evidence enough
  that Something IS?

For where as it come from
  this elation of theirs?

After all
   no awards
    are being handed out
for the friskiest pair
  of kicked up heels

There's not even anyone
  to call "Bravo!"
as a new creature
  springs, you'd suppose
only this hour from Genesis
One  --
bounds in on stiff little legs
from the ground, or goes
without a soul
    to tell him how
cantering off on his gala own

So again I ask   where has it come from
this pure joy?
Juicing up
   from muscle and bone.

Doris Peel