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