Versatile Vegetables

When life gives you invasive weeds, make coffee

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To the nosey neighbors who belittle my lawn

For the wild weeds that riddle my lawn

Oh, I beg your pardon,

That’s my vegetable garden

And those dandelions that cover my grass

Are the bountiful harvest I’ll amass

Because the dandelion isn’t a weed,

But a versatile vegetable that can self-seed

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It’s entirely valid

If you like a good salad

And it gives you the means

To prepare boiled greens

Or a steamy heaping scoop

Of creamy vegetable soup

You can even roast and grind the root

To brew a coffee substitute

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Every part of the plant, in fact, is edible

Which, I’d say, is pretty incredible!

This poem was written for the prompt: The things I grow in my vegetable garden.

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