Its appetite voracious Eating up all available space Extending its empire Through rock and soil Pushing lesser greenery aside A bully weed Its bite the perfect foil For bare-hand pluckers Stinging Nettle. My arms still tingle at the name Yet Nature’s surprise A momentary cure A brief respite For knee’s arthritic pain.
Weeds
ReplyDeleteIts appetite voracious
Eating up all available space
Extending its empire
Through rock and soil
Pushing lesser greenery aside
A bully weed
Its bite the perfect foil
For bare-hand pluckers
Stinging Nettle.
My arms still tingle at the name
Yet
Nature’s surprise
A momentary cure
A brief respite
For knee’s arthritic pain.
Rick Stepp-Bolling
Weeds
ReplyDeleteChoking off
the harvest
Pinching as
low as you
can go
Or you will let that
stubborn one grow again
And try to pull the next
one of those pesky weeds
In spite of my efforts
ReplyDeleteTo pull you up by the root
There is a part of me that is relieved when I see you spring back
Nature endures and
Green is green.
tiny yellow flowers
ReplyDeletescattered across my
unmown lawn
A seed was planted seventy-four years ago.
ReplyDeleteThe little white house of horrors, in Queens.
Now, there is a big Whitehouse of horrors, with the king of Queens.
Nobody could have seen this coming, except the writer's of an animated satirical tv series.
I also love South Park .