Weeds

Beauty can be found even in the lowly weeds

 

Rapidly weeds grow
 
        denied scents of love's sweet rose
 
                                wild beauty unknown

Author's Note

Even weeds can be beautiful to a poet to write about if we look

Reviews

[Adrian K. Smith]

This touched me beyond the clear divide generally drawn between those plants we would call beautiful flowers and those we would dismiss as weeds. It is an interesting statement on how far reaching our views of beauty reach when one only considers the external features of a particular item - whether plant or person. Somebody shared a quote somebody had made about patience making a woman beautiful in middle age or something like that, and I had to disagree. Patience makes her patient. She is beautiful if that is how she feels. While there is no doubt we all have that idea of what we find to be attractive, what does attraction really have to do with beauty...?

[C. Rose]

I like the idea of weeds asking to smell nice, but being denied, perhaps weeds are jealous of the sweet rose. Well penned.

[Fran Marie]

That could very well be..thanks so very much for reading and the review;

[quinfinn]

yes they can, and some weeds are VERY popular, although illegal. this is beautifully done. i applaud you.

[Robyn]

i love this.
appreciating all forms of nature.

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well only you could capture the sweetness of wild flowers triumphantly blooming without knowledge of their lowly existence..well done

[Salvatore Buttaci]

Congratulations for another first-place win!

[Hannah]

Perfect capture of the often forgotten plants.
I always find weeds have more beauty because they naturally belong, and have to be resilient to grow, where as neat flower beds don't have the same character.
The last line, "wild beauty unknown", sums it up beautifully.
100/100

[angelina neves]

and your poem is an amazing beauty!

[Gandré]

now this poem is a new favorite of your. it is so innocent I love how you make me feel, this is your freedom of making us to see the tiny bits of life we might have missed. thank you for submitting it my contest.

[Mark]

I too have a take on weeds, if you look at Canto II of "Three At Lunch". I'm so thrilled to see a true Haiku, standing free and proud in it's elegant obscurity. Beautiful!