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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 >> >