Announcing Venus Fly Traps
...The sundews appear first
Marching over the horizon with confidence
Sage insects scatter, attempting to hide.
Pitcher plants show up in the next formation.
Announcing the imminent arrival of the V...
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Categories:
sundews, garden,
Form: Free verse
The Pitiless Drosera
...But lo! What creature to my clutches wings
Attracted by fallacious promises
And curious to taste my sweet delights?
My scarlet beauty fashioned to bewilder
Shall tantalize this unsuspecting prey
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Categories:
sundews, poetry,
Form: Personification
Not Like a Figwort
...Not like a figwort but not an aster, either. Could he be a buttercup
with sepals, no petals, but sepals like petals? Alan is a bluebeech,
an ash if his books sell. Quick shake hands. Zach's bald ok...
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Categories:
sundews, blue, books, flower, fruit,
Form: Verse