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Joe Lamando
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since 2001-11-20
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0 posted 2001-12-09 11:40 PM



Garden of Weedin’

My hands like grazing goats
Pull barley, rye, and oats
From out this garden place.

Who sows this dreadful grain
Within my flowers' domain?
A toil I want not face!

And wonder now do I
What eyes of passers by
See in this sacred space.

See they this new flower breed
Or that the unpulled weed?
Behold the viewer’s grace!

Our minds do have the need
To grow from any seed
And vine-like from it trace

Through memory’s stem and shoot
It seeks to grow and root
Here in the Queen Anne’s Lace.



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1 posted 2001-12-09 11:43 PM


LOL!   It takes a special mind to come up with a title like that! I like it!  
Martie
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2 posted 2001-12-10 12:58 PM


Joe--I see a gardener, knees caked with mud..standing with hands on hips, and a smile.  Because I love a garden, I enjoyed this look at yours, with its twist of philosophy.  Thanks!
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