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Willem
Member

since 1999-11-18

Posts 139
Inverness, FL, USA

0 posted 1999-11-27 12:18 PM

I understand this might be a controversial
subject, I'm bracing myself...

WEEDKILLERS

To eat your apple an spit out the seeds,
that's natural.
To water, feed and love a little apple tree?
Irrational!

Who has the money, the time and the desire
to grow an apple tree,
and let the poor thing suffer from polluted air or nuclear disease?

So mercifully kill that weed, it feels no pain,
as most enlightened people say.
They do not wait until the law says it's a tree,
for then, it's killing, no longer surgery.

Postscript:

When little trees cry silently in agony unseen,
God sees and hears and will remember, forever,
the gardeners and their choices,
of life or death...

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

1 posted 1999-11-27 08:40 AM

Oh...I do not agree with this one at all. Life is life.

Poet deVine

Administrator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

2 posted 1999-11-27 11:50 AM

Excellent analogy in this poem! I liked it a lot.

Corinne
Member Ascendant

since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

3 posted 1999-11-27 11:57 AM

Give me back that apple!

(smiling)

Corinne

Nan

Administrator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

4 posted 1999-11-27 02:36 PM

Willem, this is a wonderful metaphoric work - It says much for a little apple tree...

cates
Junior Member

since 1999-11-27

Posts 15

5 posted 1999-11-27 07:09 PM

to grow a weed to a tree is a life passion for me

Ohme
Senior Member

since 1999-07-17

Posts 816
Texas

6 posted 1999-11-27 07:28 PM

I think I was a weed. Sure glad no one killed me!

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Yesterday is history, tomorrow just a mystery. And if today is good to me how could I ask for more?

Willem
Member

since 1999-11-18

Posts 139
Inverness, FL, USA

7 posted 1999-11-29 11:03 AM

I'm afraid a lot of Eve's today want their
apples back. Too late...

Thank you all for your courageous responses,
whether PC or not! I hope to get a lot more.

Willem

JOY 14
Senior Member

since 1999-09-22

Posts 1419
Wisconsin USA

8 posted 1999-11-29 03:20 PM

Everything is alive, so I understand where you are coming from on this one.
Why not a little apple tree?

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JOY

-Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
-Mark Twain

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