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Sonnet of the Dent de Leon

Violeta R. Cormier of Methuen
Published: April 26, 2007

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 --