Dandelions | Saints and Trees

Sidewalk Dandelion’s Song

August 1, 2018 at 2:37 pm (Nature, Poetry)
Tags: Dandelions, Haiku

Refugee dandelion
Squats on a sidewalk
Fleeing the chemical lawn.

(Photo by Themium, from Wikimedia Commons; original is at a higher resolution)

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