Published: April 26, 2007 02:36 pm PrintThis
Sonnet of the Dent de Leon
Taraxacum is my official name. A lion with a regal tooth and mane Is what some think that I resemble; While others see a pest, a weed, just humble. Harbinger of the equinox I Am-- Announcing spring has come for certain when I poke my yolky tresses out from under Grasses, roused from my long winter's slumber. "Seems barely but a nap" -- the mortals think; I shrug, and rub my lemon eyes and wink. Deep in their green-skin lawns I've sunk my tooth. I think by now they'd learnt the yellow truth:When lawns grow lions, reverberates the line, Resign thyself -- make dandelion wine --
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