I hadn't gone that far with the image but grant your point, John.
Bill
> On 11 Dec 2014, at 9:48 am, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I would point out that the correlation of weeds with weedy is totally
> incorrect. The reason that many weeds are so prolific is because they
> are strongest and best at coping with difficult and harsh environments.
> So with many refugees and immigrants.
>
>> ----Original Message----
>> From:
> [log in to unmask]
>> Date: 10/12/2014 21:02
>> To:
> <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subj: Re: weeds
>>
>> 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]
> UK> 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]
> AC.UK]
>>> 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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