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Weeds

I left town years ago

and moved to the woods

with a forest

for a back yard

~ trilliums in spring

mushrooms in fall ~

.

a grassy clearing

perfect for daisies

bordered by fiddleheads

tended by deer

.

maple saplings shoot up

fresh and green

grand fur stretch overhead

moss carpets the shade

and just beyond

.

are skunk cabbage, huckleberry

salmonberry, sword fern

fawn lilies, ocean spray

Oregon grape, vanilla leaf

licorice fern, lupins

columbines, dandelions

cedar, oak and hemlock

.

I asked around

and they all agreed-

none of them

are weeds

.

By Carys Owen

Written for the dVerse Poetry prompt of ‘Weeds’

dVerse Poetics

8 Replies to “Weeds”

  3. I’ve always wanted to live in the woods or forest, Carys, and your poem has strengthened that desire. I love the thought of daisies and fiddleheads in a grassy clearing.

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