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Is the dandelion a flower, herb or weed?<\/div>\n
The answer could be strictly in the beholder’s eye.<\/div>\n
One thing that’s for sure, it’s got a light and fuzzy seed.<\/div>\n
Windy days can see a haze of dandies in the sky.<\/div>\n
They’re natives of Eurasia, though they’ve made homes everywhere.<\/div>\n
Unlike some other plants, they’re not invasive.<\/div>\n
They work against erosion, mine for gold, give ground some air.<\/div>\n
And one need only look: they’re not evasive.<\/div>\n
They’ll just stand there in the grass when young and brightly yellow.<\/div>\n
I observed my father dig them up and make them gone.<\/div>\n
Seeing them pop up in spring would surely kill his mellow.<\/div>\n
Though it wasn’t big, he thought the world of his damned lawn.<\/div>\n
I especially liked it when they aged enough to fly,<\/div>\n
would blow the seeds off, chanting them away.<\/div>\n
In that respect, I guess, it was first plant to get me high.<\/div>\n
The first of many, I can hear some say.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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