Short Fungi Poems

Sea purslane & wild garlic
A pot roasted rabbit
cooked with boletus fungi
Winter chantrelles
Japanes knotweed
Apple juice
Wild!...

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Bare, brown, dry grass
Monsoon rain green white sprouts like
A small umbrella

Small fungi around
Hidden from view to naked
Eye, microscopic...

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Petty touch
Feeling
Wonder
Insanity

Grows like fungi,
In festering eloquence,

Die,
Your fingertips experience it,
So rotten

In my mind,
I’d like to lie down....

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Mix melody into mayhem,
all that flavor what an aroma;
Good golly the spell’s simmering;      
Ingredients with the benefit of fungi,   
crisped up carved into cataclysmic....

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More than one cactus plant is called a cacti
Must follow that a bunch of fungus are called fungi
Sounds kind of Asian
If I may be so brazen
The only thing left that rhymes with cacti is magpie...

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I didn't run out of words
My tongue is too heavy to utter
These that are mushrooming out like fungi
So when you see me silent
And you flowing 
Just know
I am too noisy than you at the moment ...

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Student Procrastinator

Grammar
Crammer

Multiple Casino Guy

Scrambler
Gambler

Casino Loser

Lamer 
Gamer

A Playboy’s Malady

Fun guy
Fungi

Slasher in Prison

Knifer
Lifer

April 27, 2021...

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Your love had come up in my heart like a fungi,i don't know that you exist or not,like a thunder,like a lie,like the heaven like the sky.
  Like the flower waiting for years,for a bee,waiting for years,to say i love thee....

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Trees and flowers burst into life,
old and forgotten is winters strife,
buzzing little insects spring into motion,
a moving, writhing, living ocean,
fungi and microbes cycle it back,
water, wind, fire and earth,
life in full whack....

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Choirs For Tomorrow

I must feed
tough as tough semiprecious form of 
quartz with banded colouring to 
the backyard fungi with gills on 
the bottom of 
their cap, and then
mark history by 
planting pitch forks around the 
front lawn.
...

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The palms, the peas, the protea too
Showing up the lilies and iris ever blue.
The gourds and the daisies growing so fine.
Nothing outshines fungi which walks a clear cut line.
Tens of thousands of plant species
Growing more readily with help of feces.
From bulbs or seeds, makes no diff,
Cover the ground in a giant jiff....

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calling sounds, unseen,
inviting,
high up, low down. 
twas a cloudy midnight, 
no moon, no stars, 
pitch black woodland.  
a torch, an invaluable 
tool in the dark,
it found me an entrance, 
a way in. behold! 
a wonderland, 
fungi bio luminescence, 
and Fairies calling, 
those beckoning sounds!

~~~~~~~~~~~~...

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Feature cannot function
Humanity one more level
Yet all is unseen
The problems dwell

Partial gesticulation
Fungi never grow tall
Subjugation kicks in
Avenging the tall

An eye cannot lighten
An ear indifferent to all
A cranium starved of brain
A tongue talks it all

The skin appeals stain
A nose cannot repel
The grime & unclean!
Entire entity just a scandal....

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In an Elysian wood,
flitting faeries
among the trees
ponder their
magical seeding,
for a fairy ring
they’ll build,
within the greenwoods
emerald sea.

Moss-laden ferns
feathery light,
help feed faerie magic
late at night growing fungi,
puffballs round,
a faerie ring,
inedible magic.



2-15-2022
A STRAND (1074) Poetry Contest
Brian Strand...

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look to the east
feed your eyes, a sunrise feast
another warm day

all seas transparent
their surface... mirror sky blue
its wildlife... rainbows...

big bang... theory
re all of the universe...
solar system... true...

symbiosis
strange bio relationships
lichen... coral... two

algae plus fungi...
cyanobacteria
paired perfection

~~~~~~~...

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Below are 6 more footles, separate and distinct, with their own titles in bold font.  A continuation of my footle fest!

Pokémon Podiatry
Tobias
Toe bias

The Maltese Wardrobe
Film noir
Armoire

Poetic Greeting
Haibun
Hi, Ben

Trio Töykeät
Insane
In Seine

Mushroom Clown
Fun guy
Fungi

Mobile Prayer & Spaghetti Truck
Pray go
Prego...

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Woe betide the lightning tree
the guardian of the sacred stone.
Devoid of life and leaf alike 
as even the ivy creeps elsewhere.

Woe betide the lightning tree
the silent watcher of the north.
Mastered by the winds of change
and the scapegoat of the ruthless skies.

Woe betide the lightning tree
the keeper of the ancient grove.
Once a mighty bellowing giant 
now fodder for the relentless fungi....

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A Whisper in Devil's Ear


Satan deceitful innermost mean thoughts
Decaying fungi influence left rots.

Even with the threat, soul can't stop smiling
Feel of deceit and actions beguiling.

Deep breath and release of known temptation
The mind lure images grow creation.

Self-knowing even if the mortal knows
the outcome, Satan just turns up its nose.

Whisper in Devil's Ear precarious
Possession rash acts, temerarious.

...

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I thought today I could make it work

it wasn’t so much the sadness

as lightness

as bottled crocodiles and persimmon fungi

as broken arrows across the ascended 

the ascended ones I shan’t recall 

as they won't allow it

today I make this work

as tears turn to conserved weapons

that ignite and sting every limb

as guttural music I can’t quite grasp

drips down my moldy walls

today

i thought

today reacts...

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So many mushrooms have sprung up
I’ve never seen before.
My yard is filled with fungi
In varieties galore.

The bright red flat ones you can’t miss,
The tall ones, creamy white;
The brownish kind with puffy tops,
The beige of little height.

Some tiny yellows try to hide
Near coppers like a penny.
In prior years with not much rain,
I don’t remember any.

I wonder if they’re poisonous.
If so, I’ll never know it,
For only store-bought fungi
Will be eaten by this poet....

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It’s time to address the elephant in the room
Time to talk about the controversial “Mushroom”

A vegetable you either love or hate
An acquired taste there is no mistake

Being a fungi doesn’t enhance the mushrooms case
Along with a rubbery texture many don’t embrace!

It’s been said that the mushroom tastes just like dirt
When did eating dirt ever hurt?!!

Such a wide variety of mushrooms to ingest
Though haters say s**t -ake  describes mushrooms best!!

I love Mushrooms……!...

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Listen to poem:

Your pace of life is just sublime
When blessed with seasons, wet and warm
With foliage and fungi, you mark your time
A gastropod; a handsome form
As your journey is marked with a trail of slime
I wish you well, as you perform

O slink away from the hearty hedgehog
Spread word of your foes with silent talks
Avoid beer traps, salt piles, the brazen frog
And gardeners with their rakes and forks
I know every journey's a slow footslog
So, use well those tentacles and fine eye stalks...

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