Thursday, June 30, 2011

Friday Flash 55 ~ Puffball

Puffball spores in SEM stereoscopic, magnification 5000x
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
Posted for          Friday Flash 55    at the G-Man's


"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 


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29 comments:

  1. Brian MillerJune 30, 2011 at 7:05 PM

    you been shroom hunting hedge? smiles. my cousin once ate some of the wrong kind ended up in the hospital...ugh

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  2. FireblossomJune 30, 2011 at 7:23 PM

    These are "shroomdormas." Brian Miller's cousin told me so. ;-)

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  3. hedgewitchJune 30, 2011 at 7:27 PM

    @FB: if the shroomdormas don't get me, the punstering will.Yeesh.

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  4. Monkey ManJune 30, 2011 at 7:39 PM

    Yummy. If I put on my 3D glasses will the photo show up in life like dimension?

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  5. hedgewitchJune 30, 2011 at 7:41 PM

    @MM Yes, that is one psychedelic photo--3D glasses could only help.

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  6. Maude LynnJune 30, 2011 at 8:03 PM

    After shroomdormas . . . I got nothing.

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  7. ChristineJune 30, 2011 at 8:06 PM

    Is this the culprit of all my sneezing? Eww.

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  8. hedgewitchJune 30, 2011 at 8:11 PM

    @MZ It's a hard act to follow.

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  9. G-ManJune 30, 2011 at 8:19 PM

    Hedge...
    Puffballs are Delicious!!
    I read your tiny disclaimer...
    Loved your Fungal 55 My Friend
    Thanks for playing, and have a Kick Ass Fourth of July!

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  10. UnknownJune 30, 2011 at 10:07 PM

    Achoooo!

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  11. AnonymousJune 30, 2011 at 11:12 PM

    Absolutely love the second shadorma...the whole 55 could be called trippie, but the second made me visualize those dark gills...fabulous ~

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  12. moondustwriterJuly 1, 2011 at 12:04 AM

    I'm getting puffy at the thought

    Happy 4th Hedgewitch

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  13. StrangerJuly 1, 2011 at 12:44 AM

    I didn't know they looked so similar. Tricky shrooms! Freaky photo.
    Lovely poem.

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  14. JinksyJuly 1, 2011 at 12:57 AM

    Who'd have thought fungi could be poetic? ♥

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  15. MorningAJJuly 1, 2011 at 1:10 AM

    That's lovely. I've never thought about edible mushrooms growing near poisonous ones. I'm glad her babies survived in a safe place.

    I'm up here.

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  16. RuthJuly 1, 2011 at 3:40 AM

    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. ;)

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  17. Linda Bob Grifins Korbetis HallJuly 1, 2011 at 4:04 AM

    cool.

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  18. BelindaJuly 1, 2011 at 5:18 AM

    You can turn anything into poetry!

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  19. the walking manJuly 1, 2011 at 6:39 AM

    Love me some fungus, earth grown and star bought.

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  20. annell4July 1, 2011 at 7:59 AM

    This is very good!

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  21. Other MaryJuly 1, 2011 at 8:55 AM

    Heheh - shrooms, oh yea.

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  22. hedgewitchJuly 1, 2011 at 9:10 AM

    Thanks 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.

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  23. ClaudiaJuly 1, 2011 at 11:28 AM

    shroomdormas...LOL...thanks for the trip into the mushroom world...made me think of some mushroom trips of a different kind...ugh..

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  24. BrendanJuly 1, 2011 at 12:51 PM

    Hey, 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

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  25. hedgewitchJuly 1, 2011 at 1:02 PM

    @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.

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  26. RNSANEJuly 1, 2011 at 2:50 PM

    I love mushrooms but I am such a coward. I eat only those I can buy in a grocery.

    My 55 is at:

    http://rnsane.blogspot.com/2011/07/friday-flash-55-another-royal-wedding.html

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  27. SheilaJuly 1, 2011 at 9:32 PM

    love it - so whimsical and 55-FUN!

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  28. brenda wJuly 2, 2011 at 9:16 AM

    mmmm...shrooms... Thanks for providing the form structure.

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  29. OliviaJuly 3, 2011 at 12:22 AM

    Fungi-cally poetic.. do I see those multiplying already in size.. lolss

    Sunday Hugs xx

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"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." ~William Butler Yeats

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