Wildflowers

Cherry

By Ciadish

Tue, 08 Nov 2022
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"There are too many of them growing.
They're in the wrong place.
If you aren't careful, they'll take over."

Resilience and strength are ignored.
Benefits downplayed.
Too few recognise their worth.

Life is under-appreciated.
'Tidy' borders prized.
Weedkiller to keep things in order.

Nature's diversity neglected
Pollinators die.
Too late, we realise we need them.

Certificate 12
Poem
Nature

Comments

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

yes

xxray

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Those last three lines said it all for me. Let's keep nature wild and free.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

The beauty of small widlflowers is so often not noticed. Mind you we encouraged cinquefoil and herb robert (which has lovely leaf colours in autumn too) in our rather wild patched garden, and they have rather taken over and difficult to ;manage'! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Ewan on

as an extended metaphor for migrants and our attitudes to them.

I liked it.

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Submitted by Ciadish on

So glad someone could see that - it was my intention. I also see wildflowers as a good metaphor for working class people - resilient, useful, vibrant and often trampled on, cut down or under-appreciated. Dandelions are one of my favourite flowers. Daisies another (though they're actually two symbiotic plants, not one flower, which I've been meaning to write about for ages) I'd rather have a wild, thriving garden where everything is appreciated than something uniform, cut back to blandness and tightly controlled.

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

lovely sunflower

with my shades it looks like brummy lindas big chocolate starfish and her sewing box

free love and peace

xxray

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

flowers

xxray