Hi Bill,
The original lines have been, umm, weeded out? I did like those.
Best,
Jill
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From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
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Sent:Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:17:11 +0000
Subject:Re: Late weeding
Creeping buttercup sounds insidious and playful, Patrick.
I have had a go, Jill, Andrew, at swelling this morning’s tiny weed
poem
Garden decisions
See two flat green weed strands
bobbing in afternoon breeze;
follow down with fingers
either side of a pink bluebell.
Do you grab both bits and haul and hope
the flower stays intact?
Or pull one first and hope the other
flicks underneath the flower
and comes away with an attached clod of dirt, ensuring lasting
rupture
and flower survival?
The casualty count creeps up as tiredness sets in.
Multiply decision by 500.
You have spent an afternoon.
bw
15.10.17
Bill
On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 6:33 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> Hi Bill yes in my new small garden meadow creeping buttercup is the
> challenge
>
> I have not come across folding the weeds they get a yank (not US!)
from me
>
> it reads a bit like an aphorism -old masters wise words cheers P
>
> my Partner Janet is in Melbourne at the moment so watch out
Australians!!!
>
>
> On 18/10/2017 03:13, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > Yes, you're right! Andrew, Jill. When I get time off weeding.
> >
> > Soursob or yellow oxalis we don't have here fortunately, Jill,
just a
> few
> > patches of the violet flowered one, less intrusive it seems.
> >
> > I used to mow it in our previous place or use glysophyn,
carefully in the
> > garden.
> >
> > Sticky weed is a major problem here, wrapping around plants, as
well as
> > big, strappy weeds and spiky jobs
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 1:00 PM, Jill Jones wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Bill,
> >>
> >> I'm with Andrew here. I think it's worth a shot - a garden poem,
or
> >> series.
> >>
> >> Here we have a never-ending battle with soursob - we've won a
few
> >> engagements but the war continues.
> >>
> >> best,
> >> Jill
> >>
> >> ________________________
> >> Jill Jones
> >> www.jilljones.com.au
> >>
> >> Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press
> >> http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
> >> To:
> >> Cc:
> >> Sent:Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:46:15 +0800
> >> Subject:Re: Late weeding
> >>
> >> Too right, Bill! We have the same thing with ivy growing wild!
> >>
> >> Maybe you could evolve the garden poem further? It seems like a
very
> >> good
> >> beginning to a poem .
> >>
> >> Andrew
> >>
> >> Virus-free.
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> >>
> >> On 18 October 2017 at 04:47, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >>
> >> > You know you've let things get away
> >> > when to fit them in your tub
> >> > you have to fold weeds in three
> >> >
> >> > bw
> >> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andrew
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> >>
> >>
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