Goldenrod
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Often blamed for causing sneezes
By hurling pollen on the breezes
Bees treasure these late fall flowers
Drink its tea for its healing powers
Considered a weed by so many
This humble plant’s benefits are plenty
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Urban Gardeners
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Swiss urban green thumbs
Go green for food, social, health
Reasons, wealth matters
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A poetic synthesis of the conclusions of the research article
Fallen Fungus
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Oh dear the mushroom has been uprooted
Some careless walking has it uprooted
It sure looks like it’s been hiking-booted
The soft pine needle ground buffered its fall
It’s squat, short and stout with not far to fall
Do you think the person noticed it at all?
Amazingly for this organism
This is not death for this organism
Regardless of our own barbarism
Miles of mycelium supporting
Acres of hyphae supporting
Nearly immune to human cavorting
Mushrooms will thrive long after we are gone
As extinct as the great mastodon
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(A Blues Sonnet)
Intricacies
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The beauty of lichens up close
As lovely as a coral reef
Tightly bound and crust-like – crustose
Diversity beyond belief
Pebble-like, clustered – squamulose
No need for SCUBA and debrief
The beauty of lichens up close
As lovely as a coral reef
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Flat sheets and leaf-like – foliose
Closely explored in disbelief
Free-standing, branching – fruticose
A terra-firma reef motif
The beauty of lichens up close
As lovely as a coral reef
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Sun Rays Two Ways One Day
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Sunbeams
crepuscular, golden
shining, radiating, awe-inspiring
illusion, perspective, physics, droplets
refracting, projecting, reflecting
multicolored, spectacle
Rainbow
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(A Diamonte Poem)
Poetry
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Bringing incomprehensible sentiment
Not to understand in detail
Perplexing two-thirds of the universe.
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(A Blackout Poem)
The poem was created from words found on the opening page of the following article about physics and dark matter
https://news.temple.edu/temple-magazine/2018/winter/bringing-dark-matters-mysteries-light
