puffball spores, magnified x5000 |
Puffball
Poor little
puffball in a patch
of deathcaps
poison left
and right hallucinations.
Who’d want to pick her?
Muffin-capped,
fat, brown and sturdy,
dark spores ripe
and pushing,
she twirls her black umbrella;
out they fly past death.
Resting now
she sleeps unknowing;
clouds gather,
soft rainfall
springs up far away children
anyone can pick.
June 2011
Three linked shadormas
"While most puffballs are not poisonous, some often look similar to young agarics, especially the deadly Amanitas, such as the Death Cap mushroom." ~wikipedia
The shadorma is a Spanish verse form. It has six lines with a syllable pattern:3/5/3/3/7/5
Image: Puffball spores in SEM stereoscopic, by Secret Disk
courtesy wikimedia commons
you been shroom hunting hedge? smiles. my cousin once ate some of the wrong kind ended up in the hospital...ugh
ReplyDeleteThese are "shroomdormas." Brian Miller's cousin told me so. ;-)
ReplyDelete@FB: if the shroomdormas don't get me, the punstering will.Yeesh.
ReplyDeleteYummy. If I put on my 3D glasses will the photo show up in life like dimension?
ReplyDelete@MM Yes, that is one psychedelic photo--3D glasses could only help.
ReplyDeleteAfter shroomdormas . . . I got nothing.
ReplyDeleteIs this the culprit of all my sneezing? Eww.
ReplyDelete@MZ It's a hard act to follow.
ReplyDeleteHedge...
ReplyDeletePuffballs are Delicious!!
I read your tiny disclaimer...
Loved your Fungal 55 My Friend
Thanks for playing, and have a Kick Ass Fourth of July!
Achoooo!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely love the second shadorma...the whole 55 could be called trippie, but the second made me visualize those dark gills...fabulous ~
ReplyDeleteI'm getting puffy at the thought
ReplyDeleteHappy 4th Hedgewitch
I didn't know they looked so similar. Tricky shrooms! Freaky photo.
ReplyDeleteLovely poem.
Who'd have thought fungi could be poetic? ♥
ReplyDeleteThat's lovely. I've never thought about edible mushrooms growing near poisonous ones. I'm glad her babies survived in a safe place.
ReplyDeleteI'm up here.
The shadorma is nice for these little fungi. I've never once written a poem about my fungal habitat out in the pines. We have some nice psilocybin shrooms back there, along with puffballs, and I wonder why I haven't done anything with them. ;)
ReplyDeletecool.
ReplyDeleteYou can turn anything into poetry!
ReplyDeleteLove me some fungus, earth grown and star bought.
ReplyDeleteThis is very good!
ReplyDeleteHeheh - shrooms, oh yea.
ReplyDeleteThanks all for your comments and time--This was just a little playing around with the form--the first one just popped(as it were) into my head, and I tried to give her a story in the other two. A Happy Fourth to all, and I will get to your 55's sometime today or tonight.
ReplyDeleteshroomdormas...LOL...thanks for the trip into the mushroom world...made me think of some mushroom trips of a different kind...ugh..
ReplyDeleteHey, don't knock 'shroom s'pores 'til you've tried 'em Dangerous perhaps to harvest but ooh lah lah the pinafores they'll open in yer mind. Serves to summon purple rain, too. Heaven and Hell are more often wedged together than is commonly thought. - Brendan
ReplyDelete@B: Too true, my friend. A lot of shamans would be up a creek without em. You've got to watch out for those open pinafores, though. They can get you in trouble.
ReplyDeleteI love mushrooms but I am such a coward. I eat only those I can buy in a grocery.
ReplyDeleteMy 55 is at:
http://rnsane.blogspot.com/2011/07/friday-flash-55-another-royal-wedding.html
love it - so whimsical and 55-FUN!
ReplyDeletemmmm...shrooms... Thanks for providing the form structure.
ReplyDeleteFungi-cally poetic.. do I see those multiplying already in size.. lolss
ReplyDeleteSunday Hugs xx