Short Lichen Poems

lichen coated trunk
deliberately decays ~
breeds ground for new life...

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lichen covered rock
golden in the morning sun
river otters play

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seasoned river stone -
nomad in desert garden 
drifts on lichen waves

Brian Johnston
December 4, 2015...

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Climbing
up the wall-
an alfresco
living expressionist
abstract


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen...

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No Place Like Home

Spider webs, lichen…
Fairyland at best, makes up
A humming birds nest
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"My Hairy Wild Petunia"


Likened 
To lichen 

Sphagnum 
Mostly moss 

Made moist 
Dew do me 

Kiss my 
Lab ia

Good
Bi...

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The name no longer legible,
Eroded, lichen covered slate,
Dead flowers in a broken pot:
Who rests in this neglected state?

For Susan’s Forgotten contest...

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Dragonflies flying scribble patterns
       
             over lichen etched fence posts




!9th July 2018
Entered in Brian Strand's 
July Contest...

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and so there, this world
with the trauma and troubles
while out I saw upon the path
blotches and spatters 
of lichen 
I know, right
it was like walking 
on the back 
of a giant negative Dalmatian...

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Distant shores tumble over the rocks
Resting among orange lichen and salt grass
Warmed by the sun

Herring gulls circle, searching for food
Uneven rocks slow my path to shelter

Where comfort waits for me...

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Coast

Fog bank

Shrouded cliffs

Mysterious

Cyprus trees lean inland against their will

Moisture drips like tears from sodden branches

Lichen on rocks

Seagulls swoop

Waves pound

Wind...

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The monstrous spires uprise
But never touch the skies,
Vain, earth-foundationed monuments
To Life’s impermanence.

Expensive markers war with Time
Where lichen mosses climb
And cover up each hand-carved word
That tells of those interred....

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The monstrous spires uprise
But never touch the skies,
Vain, earth-foundationed monuments
To Life’s impermanence.

Expensive markers war with Time
Where lichen mosses climb
And cover up each hand-carved word
That tells of those interred....

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The pond is brackish
a smear of lichen,
a low haze.

Water birds dabble in their sleep.
Soon the sun
will dash across a drop of dew
to burst dams of light.

Wings will shake off
dwindling shadows,
slap the wet air
until the water awakes....

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In ancient woodlands
I am breathless,
hushed beneath lush foliage
and dappling sunlight.
A brook leaps lichen rocks.
Ferns unfurl extending tendrils 
to a distant sky.
Pin cushions of moss
carpet the forest.
I am awakened
to colours and textures
of leafy green....

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utter the past
chase the line of least discourse
hark a time in the distance
don't blame the numbers in the sand
lichen will cover the scornful
a distant cove as cover
the place before the vetch
I did not choose it
A gift utterly unloved
by a familial sky




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Final resting place
Lichen clings to ancient stone
Weathered burial
Philosophical moment
Universe does not forget.






Lichen is a group of tiny plants that looks like moss and grows on the surface of things such as rocks, trees, and walls....

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The golden chair of opulence
Seats a stately emperor,
Enrobed in royal purple hue
Of lichen moss that shrouds his bones from view.

And yet he holds you in his thrall,
Millennia since he has lived, 
You bow before his exhumed throne,
And kiss, in fealty, his toe of bone....

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The pond is brackish
a smear of lichen,
a low shaded haze.

Water birds dabble in their sleep.
Soon the sun
will dash across a drop of dew
bursting dams of light.

Wings will shake off
the dwindling shadows
slap the pond and call
until the water awakes....

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Trees abandoned from their leaves
                              Wearing boughs of lichen sleeves
                               A blanket from the cold breeze
                            When the blustery north wind teases







7/7/7/9 "Lind30" Form developed by Robert Lindley...

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walk by the burial ground
ubiquitous queues of lichen
awninged tombstones string out

engraving summarizes
bold subheading
who was adored by whom

I slide the dainty floret stipends
turn into gleams
scattered embers
riding the withdrawn wind

Written: September 27, 2022...

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In Spring

In spring water troughs 
fart all the 
musical notes, butterflies go to 
Collage school, four-leaf clovers babysit 
bulldogs, placemats collect bits of 
string to 
make balls, lichen await letters from 
royalty all over 
the world, sticks go for 
runs, not to 
lose weight, but just for 
fun.
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Lichen that writes history on a page
Blue flash buttressing hope
Old Woman in stone barn
Her memory waits your coming
Vice like her rumblerings
especially in Autumn time
where frost is punishing
catches the crabbing sun
MY heart shudders as she talks
The syllabic blood that drains
as twittering seagulls loom...

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past-present-futures echo now

evolution demands some future safety
for unsung potentials from life's blueprints
drawn up now in the present chain of life

natural species protections involve a blending
of life forms with such as environmental food sources
with respect color modes and general animal shapes


stan sand...

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In the soak of the rain
Church bells chime
and the lichen covers gravestones
There is not much change in the touch of needle
Silence falls between the leaves
belonging to the netherworld
of coldness cussing down winding roads
like false hope aching to the core
of lose faltering teasing your skin 
Lodgements if only we could...

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