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Pandemic Foraging - 2020

PANDEMIC FORAGING 

We are the ignored...
We are the long forgotten 
Dandelions, Chickweeds, Amaranthus & many more
Come find us & the treasured secrets of Life - we hold

We were brought across the oceans

Bound & tossed aboard the ships

in pouches & satchets

We held the aroma of motherland

close to our breast

We nurished the lonely hearts

of the early sea farer

We healed the aching wounds

of the foracious land-stakers

We were Food,Tea &Tincture

for the settlers as they called themselves

Now history of settlers & immigration long forgotten 

Modern farming with no balance

No bulls to plow or graze or recycle, yet 

Suburbans kill anything other than grass

Weeded out & thrown away

As intruders in the current scheme of civilized world

We still persist and thrive peacefully

Take root by the wayside or anywhere we could

For it is GOD's will...

That we the forgotten should not forget

How important we are

For the survival of Humanity

For the sake of Mother earth

We shall prevail with patience

Though blamed as the undesirable intruders

Weeds or immigrants!

-by VeerajaR

 

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