Whistle Up a Thistle (A binoculur poem)

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Open Poetry #32

Whistle Up a Thistle (A binoculur poem)

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2004-05-01 01:04 PM

( a poem in which one sees both sides of a subject, with apologies to Petula Clark and the composer of "Both Sides, Now," which I used as my spring-board.)

Whistle Up a Thistle

I’ve looked at weeds
from both sides now
from up and down
and still, somehow,
it’s weed confusion, I recall,
I really don’t know weeds,
at all.

You stick plants in dirt
and water in the sun;
you pull out the weeds,
but still they come;
my plants shrink
like a violet,
and weeds go on
with the speed ofa jet.

I hear tell
it’s birds, they say,
that bring some weeds
that’re here to stay.
Sometimes the wind
plays a pow’rful part
to give weeds a chance,
a fighting start.

The coat’s of dogs and
other animals convey,
even shoes of “man”
serve ‘em up in play;
the spores and seeds
of obnoxious strands
carried here and there,
all across the land.

There’s some out front
and a few out back,
plentiful and green
there seems no lack.
Some have bright,
cheery yellow faces
some have leaves
and Queen Anne’s laces.

It just could be
as a friend of mine says
“If it weren’t for weeds,
he’d no plants at all,”
they grow and grow,
some to ten-feet tall.
So whistle up a thistle,
a dandelion or two,
they’ll grow and grow
in spite of you.

©May 1, 2004

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

1 posted 2004-05-01 01:19 PM

So true. Enjoyed.
JL

She said: ”You look cute in the dark.”

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2004-05-01 01:41 PM

and weed killer does no good, I've tried

I don't have a green thumb at all, and sometimes I think I have the death touch because any plant I touch ends up dying... but I can sure grow some weeds

Virginia, there is quite a deeper meaning here beyond the surface of this poem, and though sad, it's so well done

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2004-05-01 01:55 PM

Cute write Virginia...and I know what you mean.
Hugs~

~I love you - those three words have my life in them.~

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

4 posted 2004-05-01 02:32 PM

Charming write, VAS!

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