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Dandelion

There's a dandy little fellow,
Who dresses all in yellow,
In yellow with an overcoat of green;
With his hair all crisp and curly,
In the springtime bright and early
A-tripping o'er the meadow he is seen.
Through all the bright June weather,
Like a jolly little tramp,
He wanders o'er the hillside, down the road;
Around his yellow feather,
Thy gypsy fireflies camp;
His companions are the wood lark and the toad.

But at last this little fellow
Doffs his dainty coat of yellow,
And very feebly totters o'er the green;
For he very old is growing
And with hair all white and flowing,
A-nodding in the sunlight he is seen.
Oh, poor dandy, once so spandy,
Golden dancer on the lea!
Older growing, white hair flowing,
Poor little baldhead dandy now is he!

by Nellie M. Garabrant

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  "You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all." - James Baldwin

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"Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?" -  Mary Oliver

from her poem 'The Summer Day' from New and Selected Poems, 1992 Beacon Press, Boston, MA
Copyright 1992 by Mary Oliver. All rights reserved.

 

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 The dandelion certainly knew what to do with his 'one wild and precious life'; do you? 

 

Click here to read about some suggested health benefits of dandelions and here to read about their folklore.

 

Writing prompts:

• Dandelion - friend or foe? Write about dandelions for five minutes without stopping.
• Write about how you are living your one and only precious life. 
• Write about anything that's stopping you from going 'the way your blood beats'. 
• Pause for a moment with this dandelion time lapse video, then write about what you will wish for the next time you blow away the seeds.