Tag Archives: dandelions

Love Is Inconvenient

Posted on June 25, 2026 by mitchteemley

Source: pinterest.com There’s No Doubt About It Love is inconvenient Before it can be a noun it must be a verb And yet if you don’t love when it’s inconvenient you don’t love at all “Love suffers long, it is … Continue reading →

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A Weekend Wish That Always Comes True

Posted on September 12, 2020 by mitchteemley

It’s Saturday and the weeds await. My lawn is festooned with them, particularly the ever-present dandelionous paininthebuttous. So I begin my pre-lawncare procedure by musing about dandelions: “Wishes are iffy things,” I think, “but there’s one wish dandelions can actually … Continue reading →

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Damnedelions

Posted on April 16, 2018 by mitchteemley

(Time-lapse video below It’s spring! Sort of. Actually, we’re still in Sprinter where I live, so it’s snow shovels one day and flip-flops and shades the next. But the dandelions can’t be fooled. Fake-daisy-delions are popping up all over our … Continue reading →

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Dandelions are Human Weeds

Posted on April 6, 2018 by mitchteemley

It’s that time of year. Even amid hushes of snow, the dandelions appear. How like us they are, arranging themselves about their clocks, terrified of being uprooted. Created to live for a season and then die beyond themselves, instead they push their … Continue reading →

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Genetically Mollified

Posted on March 9, 2015 by mitchteemley

Behold, I saw the Earth in its final days And all that remained upon it Were ranch houses made of stucco Overgrown with dandelions And in them Roaches Dancing and singing La Cucaracha ~Lamentations of the Prophet Monsanto

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