Confessions from a wild urban garden

You might have to have certain music tastes or kids of a certain age to get this..

Midsummer and the neighbours  are singing
I'm just a teenage dirtbag
Sadly only the latter part is true
(Looking at my fingernails
And reflection in the algae-covered lily pond)
Poppies are bursting from the cracks
While the bees, bored with lavender and roses,
Dally with the stranger sweets of honeydew on plum tree leaves
Chamomile and feverfew and ox-eye daisy 
Try to stare each other out
While cornflower boldly faces down the sky
Until it drops on harebell's slender stems.
The lawn succumbs to sunshine spread of bird's foot trefoil and
The morning glory mocks the bindweed creeping over from next door
While past decades of rebellion float over from the flats behind
Along with a Speckled Wood.
The sparrow on the feeder ignores the outrage of
The tits in the Leylandii hedge
While hoverfly suckle nipplewort and
Cabbage whites get frisky in nasturtiums..
Who am I to judge?
The blackbird chuckles with anxious greed at ripening strawberries
And the neighbour playing Basket Case by Green Day
You and me both, blackbird, 
Melodramatic fools
Carrying our children's vanished youth
In amongst the daisies

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