Words count with Mama Zen in the garden

If you don't know Mama Zen's poetry, you are really missing out on something. This woman can pack more meaning into a few words than any woman I've ever known. I can't imagine what it must be like to have a telephone conversation with her. She would have been using Tweet-length messages before Twitter was even invented.
Her challenge for us today is simply a word-count challenge. No particular topic or style. She just says, "No more than 45 words."
Well, you may remember I was really struggling with the prompt asking for a poem with all the words in alphabetical order. It was a disaster.
However, I had an extra 10 words, from A to J, of which I was rather fond.
This morning, that poem came together with the addition of photos by my husband, and a few more alphabetical words, making it 45 for Words Count with Mama Zen.

apparently,

better causes

do exist:

funding good homes

in jungles...

keeping lakes,

mountains

nearby

(our precious

qualities)

Richard Schear photos

really safe

to use.

vast wastelands

emerge, yet zealots

ambitiously

build careers.

diamonds 

extracted 

for girlfriends

have injured

jaws,

knees,

legs;

Machiavellian

new ogres

pretend, quite

realistically,

sadness.