Short Growers Poems

Amazing beauty, citrus delight, esteemed Florida growers,
Hoping irresistible juices kiss lips make nuances optimal.
Producing quality reared sweet tasting, universally
        very wanted, x-tra yum, zestfully.

By Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
12/31/2016...

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flora and fauna urges
food finding urges
fruit and vegetable growers at seashore floating vessals emerge
india reign supreme

flora and fauna urges
food finding urges
milk and meat farmers at labortory emerge
india reign supreme

flora and fauna urges
food finding urges
agriculture exploration at an icy planet emerge
india reign supreme...

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Rubenesque pumpkin blossoms and blowers
Come in the night to entice the best growers
Playing music the future jack-o-lanterns here.
Calling each other endearments like Pookie and Dear.

The jacks sit on their vines, and grow the best they can.
They want to please Doris, Denise and Dibbly Dan.
Pumpkin blossoms and blowers are found to be super sealed.
The last one I saw was playing a flute in an Iowa field....

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Listen to poem:

Tiny seed with embryo in toe
awaits the sower to decipher
all it's wants and needs,
to grow captive, in plots and pots.
Nature knows the needs of seeds off by heart.
Growers learn the code of what and when 
by rote declension recitals of scripts, 
and wasteful trial and error plantings.
Such failed trials and tribulations prove 
costly to seeds left to rot, freeze-dry and die
when sown in cold, parched and barren, 
foreign lands....

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