Common Dandelion Yankees Challenge

by Yankee4youSt. Albans, Vermont, USA

Aug 2012 799 Views 9 comments

Common Dandelion (Yankee's Challenge)

How great you are the mighty lion's tooth
Emerging through the mottled winter kill
Bursts into life so many blooms of youth
Lying your yellow carpet down the rill

In these longer hours for daylight to pass
Just below the ridge running wild with ease
Happens at once the snowdrift melts alas
Change mindless dullards into swarming bees

A springtime welcome sign like no other
Gives up sweet nector make hives of honey
Such a gift to give our earthly mother
Greater your gold than glitter of money

When your aging blooms turn to hollow globes
Watching wind blow your parachuted robes

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Posted: Aug 2012

About this poem:

The dandelion is a flower that I admire. It reflects brightly upon my youth. We would pluck it many flowers answering such important questions of the day like ''she's loves me or she love's me not"....or link its stems together into proud necklaces. It reminds of how something so simple and yet so common (enough to be called an invasive, noxious weed by 'The Purists') can also be so useful and colorful and welcomed by many other creatures..including me for making some delicious wine that I use mostly for cooking and also tenderizing meat.

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FellsmanLake District, Cumbria, England UKAug 19, 2012

I figured out before I read it that this would be a sonnet.

It is also a super natural history lesson... A very fine write Yankee.

Regards

Bill

Poetnumber1St James, Port of Spain Trinidad and TobagoAug 19, 2012

M.MA beautiful Sonnet Yankee and an interesting choice you made,i'm quite familiar with your choice...thanks for sharing and thanks again for the challenge

Happygolucky4uTreasure Coast, Florida USAAug 19, 2012

Yes the mighty danelion.

so I take it you are saying you are sweet as honey

Everyones poems have been so visual in my head. I do not know if it is the topic or the writers that has let loose my imagination. But I have enjoyed the many readings. And yes I see you. You mighty lion running wild with ease

adjhematteson, Illinois USAAug 19, 2012

Dandelions are always cut down as most people do not like them. You found beauty within them for all to see. Thank you from me.
Have a great day.

niah9Auckland, New ZealandAug 19, 2012

How can any flower be common....you made it majestic.....and I remembered an elderly lady with her crochet, sitting in her tiny garden telling me all about the humble dandelion.....I would have been about 7.......thanks for the memory...Kathy

orientalkoruGlenella, Queensland AustraliaAug 19, 2012

Your beautiful sonnet brought me back so many warm memories! I was captivated by the beauty of dandelions from the moment I was able to pick a flower. So much so that I use to water them in our garden amidst my mother's stern orders "Kathy, that's just a weed, pluck 'em". In the end I was given a pot to plant my dandelion. Then history repeated itself...my brother did the same and so did my eldest daughter...lol! I wish they never wither and spore...that's the only thing I don't like about them. Thanks you for your challenge and for sharing your poem with us..and really appreciate you comments...

RedexNorthumberland, England UKAug 20, 2012

well yankee you picked the flower that is not sold. Yes the root makes tea supposed to help with arthritis, my gran used to say the tea of leaves given to people with water retention helped the condition (hence pittley beds) we are just given synthetic tabs these days

may I go on- the milk from the stem of the flower covered over a wart was supposed to make it drop off. I think this made a membrane over wart they have to breathe to survive but belief too is a stong healer.
So besides looking great in fields they are very versitle

Wonderful poem wonderful challenge

LadyMorgana60Norwich, Norfolk, England UKAug 20, 2012

A wonderful sonnet! and a Dandelion was one I too was thinking of to write :) I often enjoy Dandelion Tea with a dash of honey.. very refreshing and as Redex said great for those that may suffer with inflammation or water retention.
Thanks for sharing

Yankee4youOPSt. Albans, Vermont USAAug 21, 2012

Thanks for all the wonderful comments and interesting things about dandelions...Hmmmm I only remember hearing that rubbing a dandelion under your chin will tell you if you're in love if the pollen sticks to your skin!! Kind of like rubbing the buttercup under you chin can tell if you like butter or not....silly things...but when a child you really believe this stuff....and I still do....so what does that make me?? haha Always a child at heart... So many thanks to 'everyone' for so many great comments.....and truly amazing peotry to help make my challenge memorable....

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