Violeta R. Cormier of Methuen
April 26, 2007 02:36 pm
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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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