I am surprised nobody has yet quoted the old gardener's saying that a
weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place. But maybe it's a
cliche and that's why.
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>I suppose most plants
started off as weeds!!these days on allotments many
>have a section for
wild life (as in plants not people) maybe some poets
>are weeds P
D'Weed
>icured cousins. Quite a line :-)
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>Thanks, Max, Doug, Sheila.
I wanted lower case, Doug, for the lower status
>'plants' they are.
Couple of slight tweaks, Max.
>
>Bill
>
>
>unwelcome arrivals
>insinuating earth ...
>
>yet to the blind
>they feel lush,
>
>to the
child
>they look soft.
>
>the wind
>waves them.
>
>they oxygenate
>air the same
>
>as their man-
>icured cousins.
>
>by whose command
>should we consign,
>
>pluck, relegate?
>weeds we
>
>are all
>in the
end.
>
>bw
>9.12.14
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