Best Horticulture Poems
If I Could Splice Two Trees TogetherIf I were a horticulturalist like Sam Van Aken
I would splice a banana tree with a strawberry tree.
Strawberries are not tree-grown?
Okay.
Then I would splice a banana tree with a peanut tree.
If I could find a butter cow from the Iowa State Fair
I would set...
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Categories:
horticulture, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Light Verse
Horticultural Incest
Horticulture? truly awesome!
Granddaddy’s timeless illusion -
one giant synthetic blossom
swirling midst rustic seclusion.
Fascinated by back-crossing,
Pop experimented in silence.
Sleep was spent turning and tossing
weird ideas, odd incidents.
His gigantic bogus blossom
would emanate from these night-swings.
He had heard that you could cross some
old parent plants with their...
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Categories:
horticulture, 11th grade, flower, mental
Form:
Quatrain