Best Botany Poems
I once knew two sisters
aptly named Flora and Fauna
I coulda loved them both
for sure I was a goner
Flora was a flowery lass
pretty Fauna was easy to envy
both sisters planted kisses
on cheeks so warm and friendly
Fauna could change chromatically
instantly from green to red
emotions turned emphatically
joy morphed to anger instead
Flora bright-colored and perfumed
smelled wondrous and made me hot
she'd float in and brighten any room
while Fauna could definitely not
animal instincts gave way you see
though both sisters lovely when bare
Fauna tasted a bit green to me
Flora blossomed her flower to share
© Goode Guy 2011-09-08
yeah
what is it?
what
is it …
[ pretty.
I wonder why there’s only one? ]
…
looks like a turtle!
haha
Botany
Have you had a shower?
Yes dear, and changed my t. shirt too
you see, my dear, when I was in the amazon
collecting rare flowers, the local tribe called
me “the man who hates his face.”
Did you find a rare flower?
Yes, my lovely, I found you.
But the botanist whom I was carrying his luggage
refused to accept the human rarity
that is why your name is in posh books about
botany
Thicket of intermingled branch tangle
Hides pimple shine ripe juice strawberries strewn
Across pine needle pick up stick mangle
Fragrant lily pink tang gives tasty boon
Hook horseshoe slender stems support balls' dangle
Gloss hanging globes celebrate scarlet balloon
Bountiful renewed eruption of Spring
Sprouts floated fruit fit for a fairytale King
Hidden in haven bed of duvet shade
Shielded precious berries, safe from predator
Sweetest treats endorse purely Heaven made
Cones pushing petals exalt Mother Nature
Lanterns swinging China Town of gloomy glade
Lined foliage raises redness in rapture
Emblem of wild leaf crown insignia
Represents righteous memorabilia
Humble hunter uncovers last month's melt
Freshened season floods taste buds in wonder
Tart bumpy tongue tid bits brazenly dealt
By pine imbibed wildness growing under
Woodland umbrella where I'm gladly knelt
Gaunt Winter cruelty is cast asunder
God's lollies extend tender umbilical
Sun warm strawberry snack sabbatical
16th February 2021
Written for Contest: Spring
Sponsor: Regina Mc Intosh
Ernest working, ethical man..David Bellamy!! not at all overstated
And grand, a speech impediment, did not hold him back
A lecturer at Durham, he taught many to track. The plants
And blossoms; that he knew by heart, a giant of ecology he was
Appreciative of its arts.' O B E awarded also the Dimbleby
Prize; honest to full measure; not disposed to lies.' Born in
That town of London U K, all around the world he would make his way.' Don't ask me was a t v show.' Which He was part
Of..Look it up as it goes.' Ill gather you'll remember this colourful
Man i'll bet my last drachma or dollar or pound.. Or rand, i'll be damned..' For this honest hero, champion of green.' You see
He shot a big hole in the climactic..? Climate.?? Er theme.'
He reckoned he got sidelined, due to views he'd aired; in
Clearing the proverbial.' He was put-ched off the very same air.!
2019 was his year of demise, yet he's not been forgotten'
Despite some foul devise.' Deception and smokescreens
Its well.?? Not been very nice.' Yet now Bellamys back! Here if you need
Sound advice.) come on all you soupers., should you feel the
Need? to sound Out' what this powerfull prescence
Expounds indeed.! Also upon reflection, I'm minded to say; lets mark the18th
Of January as ( David Bellamy day!!)
mirrored botany
bright plumage beyond compare ~
bird of paradise