Yes, John, and this would fit with my original idea - undeveloped here - of refugees as metaphorical weeds, born in the wrong place.
Bill
> On 10 Dec 2014, at 10:22 pm, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>> ----Original Message----
>> From:
> [log in to unmask]
>> Date: 10/12/2014 9:47
>> To:
> <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subj: Re: weeds
>>
>> 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 :-)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On
>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>> Sent: 10 December 2014 09:18
>> To:
> [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: weeds
>>
>> 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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