Walking among the flowers,
bending to touch the weeds
they are fragile, blooming at will
sprouting from no planted seeds.
An array of splendor soon to be
fed to the noisy lawn mower.
Weeds, do you know that you are
as beautiful as any planted flower?
Purple, pink, yellow and white blooms
who decided that you were a weed?
While flowers close by are honored
in words and pictures and deed.
You keep on growing, waiting for my notice
instead you’re pulled, torn up and trashed.
Hey, stop swaying, let me take your picture
so for me at least, your beauty forever lasts.
by Jeanne Marie
The first picture is called an Air plant. It grows anyplace it wants to and while often latching on to other plants, branches and wires, it requires no soil. The next five pictures are weeds that grow wild in Florida. Silly Yankee girl that I am, I have nurtured and transplanted these beauties to each place where I have lived in Florida. Yes, the neighbors laughed at me. The last three pictures are of flowers, but since they appeared and were not planted by me at all, blown into my yard from where I don’t know, I count them as weeds. But I treasure my weeds as well as my flowers for which bloom should be called a weed and which bloom a flower? I just love them all.
Women Who Think Too Much by Jeanne Marie 
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So much beauty around us if we bother to look 🙂
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That is true. How often we overlook the petite blossoms on a so called weed.
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I’ve always loved weeds. lol
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Yes, they are beautiful.
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Me too! I totally love these weeds! I once had a professor tell me there is no such thing as weeds they all have a name! ❤️💜💖
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So true!
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Those weeds/flowers are beautiful! Good for you for focusing on the positive and not the negative. 🙂 I enjoyed this blog post!
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Thank you. I had fun with it too.
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Beauty is all around us if we only open our eyes to recognize it, grin, even in weeds! Hugs
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Yes, so true. I love my “weeds.”
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As do I!
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Beautiful words. I love the photos of your flowers—weeds or not!
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Thank you! I love my “weeds” too.
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