An amazing golden floral gift
\nFor bees and butterflies
\nRich in pollen and nectar
\nFor anything that flies
\nEvery part of this plant
\nRoot right up to flower
\nCan be eaten throughout the year
\nAnd it will give you power<\/p>\n
It\u2019s very tonifying For the urinary
\nTract
\nLiver kidneys gall bladder
\nIn minerals it\u2019s packed
\nVery Good for the elderly
\nFor our bones in old age
\nLuteolin is excellent
\nReally it\u2019s off the page<\/p>\n
I really love the bitterness
\nDandelion greens they glow
\nReally good for blood quality
\nThe skin will start to show
\nOthers just how healthy
\nYou look it has that feel
\nI actually think they are magickal
\nAnd sort of make me real<\/p>\n
And if they are growing in your garden
\nIt\u2019s an indication that you
\nNeed them it\u2019s a psychic message
\nAnd so what you should do
\nIs listen to that message
\nAnd eat the greens they are free
\nAs long as you don\u2019t spray them
\nGreat value there it be<\/p>\n
They are very very sensitive
\nLight it turns them on
\nIn the spring and summer
\nThe flowers that they then don
\nWill be just open wide
\nBreathing in the light
\nBut later in the evening
\nThey close up for the night<\/p>\n
Dandelion means lion tooth
\nIt\u2019s really a marvellous plant
\nOfficianalis was used by herbal doctors
\nAnd we can\u2019t
\nForget this the Egyptians the Romans\u2019
\nAnd the greeks
\nthe Chinese and the Japanese
\nHonestly it speaks<\/p>\n
Volumes for the ancients
\nWho drank their mugs of tea
\nAnd coffee from the roasted roots
\nAnd ate the leaves for free
\nIt really works the bladder
\nSo you are bound to pee
\nIt\u2019s a most effective diuretic
\nAnd wild animals agree<\/p>\n
Boars love eating dandelions
\nAnd Cows given the chance
\nIt helps with milk production
\nAnd rabbits watch them dance
\nThey feel the health provided
\nAnd song birds like their seed
\nHorses find the leaves too bitter
\nSomething to take heed<\/p>\n
It really is an amazing plant
\nIt\u2019s hollow stems produce
\nLatex and the Chinese
\nMake rubber that\u2019s no ruse
\nIt make a softer pliable
\nVery useful way
\nOf harnessing the latex
\nSo the Chinese say<\/p>\n
The milky sap is safe to use
\nOn fungal growths and warts
\nOn anything that itches
\nOn bruises just all sorts
\nOf skin conditions really
\nIt\u2019s a truly marvellous gift
\nHated by certain gardeners
\nWho fail to get my drift<\/p>\n
It\u2019s actually makes the lawn
\nMore healthy
\nDrawing minerals through
\nSome may think it\u2019s invasive
\nBut it has a job to do
\nFeed the bee\u2019s fix nitrogen
\nAnd tonify us all
\nIt may be growing in your yard
\nBut you fail to hear its call<\/p>\n
And you go off to the supermarket
\nAnd buy your salads there
\nWith no idea from whence they came
\nPerhaps you do not care
\nBut in your own vibration
\nThis plant has come to say
\nEat my leaves and eat my flowers
\nAnd feel good everyday<\/p>\n
And look at my beautiful golden flowers
\nAttracting the sun
\nThe hover flies the Lepidoptera
\nAll having fun
\nIt actually releases ethylene gas
\nRipening wild fruit
\nAnd has been around some 30 million
\nYears for the astute<\/p>\n
Witches know it\u2019s secrets
\nRich in A C and K
\nDandelion flower tempura
\nThe order of the day
\nOhitashi dandelion leaves
\nBoiled then soaked a while
\nAnd served with a dash of tamari
\nWhich helps to reconcile<\/p>\n
Oneself a while to remedy
\nThe simple joys around
\nIt\u2019s good for the adrenals
\nThat what i have found
\nIt lowers our blood sugar
\nIt\u2019s a really special thing
\nWorthy of more scrutiny
\nThat honestly will bring<\/p>\n
It\u2019s magick to your table
\nAnd grows all through the year
\nAs children we blew on the clock
\nThe puff balls it was clear
\nWe watched the Pappus of fine hairs
\nEach seed designed to fly
\nAcross the fields of plenty
\nAnd then just fall somewhere and lie<\/p>\n
And this is called apomixis
\nNo pollination here
\nSo when it grows it\u2019s exactly
\nLike its mother never fear
\nA matriarchal miracle
\nCreated just like that
\nAnd eating the whole plant
\nYou can feel where she is at<\/p>\n
In autumn go out to the woods
\nOr in your own back hard
\nAnd dig up some of the dandelions
\nHere today this bard
\nDoes it very often
\nClean the tap roots found
\nThen cuts them up and dries them in the oven
\nThen I ground<\/p>\n
Them roast them in a pan
\nAnd make a coffee drink
\nIt doesn\u2019t have any caffeine
\nAnd there is a link
\nAgain it cleans out toxins
\nAs organic as can be
\nAnd if you add some agar
\nAnd some maple it can be<\/p>\n
A dessert a kind of jelly
\nThat is cleansing
\nAnd tonifying
\nAnd all of this in your backyard
\nAnd I promise I\u2019m not lying
\nI really love the bitterness
\nAnd all of it is free
\nIt wild it\u2019s full of goodness
\nAnd this poem is from me<\/p>\n
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gender \u00a0Masculine<\/p>\n
planet \u00a0 \u00a0 jupiter<\/p>\n
element \u00a0air<\/p>\n
deity \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0hecate<\/p>\n
power \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Divination wishes<\/p>\n
calling spirits<\/p>\n
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