Don’t kill the weeds

Don’t kill the weeds

They are the first food for the bees.

What you see as weeds

Is food for rabbits and bees.

The poison you spread

Not just kill the weeds

But also the rabbits and bees.

Without bees

There is no crops,

No food for thee.

Don’t kill the weeds

They are pretty, they are yellow

They belong to the bees.

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©Susan Fourtane, 2025 - All rights reserved

The story behind the poem:

I saw a post on Facebook that inspired this poem. You can see the post following the link here below. The photo showed a dead bee with pollen from dandelions on its legs. The text said that the bee died because the dandelions had been spread with weed poison, which not just kill the lovely dandelions but also the innocent bees that feed from them, also affecting the normal course of pollination and altering the ecosystem.

As soon as spring starts, rabbits also will come out to eat dandelions after a a long winter of scarce food. Dandelions are the first food at the start of the spring for many wild animals and insects, all of them depend on those first dandelions for food until June at least when other wild food grows. The poem’s inspiration photo is in the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/share/15XHKz8R3y/?mibextid=wwXIfr