well, they’ve all gone to seed,
their balding heads, puff freed,
far from dandy, indeed, blown to hell
~kat
Florescence Day 18 for Jane Dougherty’s Poem a Day Challenge. The dandelions are so pretty…until they are not. Beauty is fleeting, indeed. 😉
like mercury colliding... 
April 18th, 2018 at 2:32 pm
blown to hell? oh no, not there. anywhere but there.
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April 18th, 2018 at 3:04 pm
😉 you know I jest…and I needed a word that rhymed with well! 😜
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April 19th, 2018 at 12:11 am
“To find a rhyme for ‘silver’
Or any rhymeless rhyme
Requires only will, ver-
Bosity and time”
– Willard Espy –
😆
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April 19th, 2018 at 1:25 pm
Very good! 🙂
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April 19th, 2018 at 1:42 pm
He wrote an almanac titled “Words at Play.” One etymological contortion for every day of the year. You’d love it. “The Mrs. kr. Mr.” is another classic, as is “Answering Yours of (Date Illegible)” Check it out if you can find it. There’s only one serious entry, somewhere in September, I think — titled “The Gentle Witch” — an actual letter from a condemned witch to her judges. Find it and cry.
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April 19th, 2018 at 1:53 pm
Thank you Ana! I will look for the book. Sounds like it is definitely my kind of read! 😊
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April 19th, 2018 at 2:37 pm
😘
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April 18th, 2018 at 3:15 pm
yah, I know. just picking on you.
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April 18th, 2018 at 3:16 pm
Yes I do…it’s all in good fun here. 🙂
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April 18th, 2018 at 5:06 pm
Good one
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April 18th, 2018 at 5:40 pm
Thanks. When I was a girl we used to split those bare stalks into curls and wear them in our hair! 😊
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April 18th, 2018 at 6:47 pm
Thats so cute
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April 18th, 2018 at 6:51 pm
We had fun for hours outdoors back then. No video games.
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April 18th, 2018 at 9:39 pm
yes!
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April 19th, 2018 at 12:09 am
Yep, quit drinkin’ en’ jes dried the hell up…. Tragic, I calls it…
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April 19th, 2018 at 6:27 am
Just think of each one of those fluffy little seeds will grow into another dandelion 🙂 Don’t you get buttercups? They have taken over from the dandelions here. And they don’t go to hell either.
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April 19th, 2018 at 9:04 am
Of course you are right Jane. How could I curse the process. Though, I am not fond of all the bald, bobbing dandelion heads scattered about (not to excuse, but perhaps explain my gone to hell comment), with Creeping Charlie nipping at their roots. Eventually the Charlie will bloom, but sadly we don’t have buttercups in my neck of the woods. At the moment my yard is a hot mess. 🙂
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April 19th, 2018 at 11:54 am
I wish I could send you some buttercups. They’d brighten life up no end 🙂
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April 19th, 2018 at 12:24 pm
Thank you Jane…at least the dogwoods are beginning to bloom. The ground is a warzone. 😉
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April 19th, 2018 at 1:12 pm
We have masses of dogwood too! The flowers haven’t opened yet, but they’re almost there.
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April 19th, 2018 at 1:18 pm
I noticed ours this morning on my way in to work. They are very pretty.
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April 19th, 2018 at 3:40 pm
Maybe we have different kinds of dogwood. I’m not sure ours is going to be particularly pretty. I’ll let you know when it flowers.
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