I've wasted far too much time scribbling new translations of grooks, but I won't subject you to them all...

But I'm quite pleased with this one, in a slightly different style.
Like the others, it's not so keen on -w... so if anyone's got any suggestions for improvements, please let me know! 

$miracle = <<GROOK;

THE MIRACLE OF SPRING
by Piet Hein (in Grooks, 1966)
translated into Perl by osfameron (hakim\@earthling.net)

We glibly talk
  of nature's laws
but do things have
  a natural cause?

Black earth turned into
  yellow crocus
is undiluted
  hocus pocus
GROOK

    #    #    #

    we: print GLIBLY
      $of. $natures {laws};
    but: exists $things 
      {'natural cause'} ?
    
    s(Black earth) #into
      (yellow crocus) :
    $is {undiluted}, 
      $hocus_pocus++;

    #    #    #

print $miracle if $hocus_pocus;

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Cheerio!
Osfameron

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