Well, this is fuller, but where’s the original, Bill? I liked it as short & sweet, or a first stanza if you were to follow through with it as a kind of armature for an ongoing poem.
Here, in autumn, if I were the gardener types, it would all be dying off, anyway. But I'm not, so can only admire all you Aussies with your oddly named plants being pulled...
Doug
> On Oct 18, 2017, at 5:17 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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 <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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 <[log in to unmask]> 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
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> ----- 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
>>>>
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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
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>>
>>>>
>>
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