The Mushroom
15 Syllables18 total reviews
Comment from Pam Lonsdale
Thanks for sharing your inspiration for this poem.
Breathes spores - are you talking about the mushroom or people who may breathe them (which I know can result in possible lung problems short-term and long)? Retires? Dies? I understand mushrooms can live for hundreds of years.
Sorry I have so many questions. If it's obvious and I've missed the point, don't bother responding. Go write more poetry:-)
Good luck, Mark.
xo
Pam
reply by the author on 24-Apr-2024
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Thanks for sharing your inspiration for this poem.
Breathes spores - are you talking about the mushroom or people who may breathe them (which I know can result in possible lung problems short-term and long)? Retires? Dies? I understand mushrooms can live for hundreds of years.
Sorry I have so many questions. If it's obvious and I've missed the point, don't bother responding. Go write more poetry:-)
Good luck, Mark.
xo
Pam
Comment Written 24-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 24-Apr-2024
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The main part of the fungus lives underground d and as you say can survive for hundreds of years. The mushroom is the fruiting body which is relatively short-lived. The mushrooms release spores I said breath as a metaphor for the wind blowing spores. Thanks for reading.
Comment from Ginda Simpson
This is extremely well conceived. With simplicity of language and style, you succeed in telling the story of the complexity of nature. Miraculous, yet so simple. Well done!
reply by the author on 24-Apr-2024
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This is extremely well conceived. With simplicity of language and style, you succeed in telling the story of the complexity of nature. Miraculous, yet so simple. Well done!
Comment Written 24-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 24-Apr-2024
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Thank you
Comment from Wendy G
You have succeeded in summarising their life cycle in a few words; although it's simple it is also quite intricate and the variety of fungi is enormous. Well written. I wish you success in the contest.
Wendy
reply by the author on 23-Apr-2024
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You have succeeded in summarising their life cycle in a few words; although it's simple it is also quite intricate and the variety of fungi is enormous. Well written. I wish you success in the contest.
Wendy
Comment Written 23-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 23-Apr-2024
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Thank you very much
Comment from GoWiSt
"The Mushroom" Some say early Christians--and Jews--were high on it. I don't know. I don't even like them on my pizza.
Hmm! Do mushrooms produce spores?
Good personification on the second, fifth and last lines.
Good luck in the contest!
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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"The Mushroom" Some say early Christians--and Jews--were high on it. I don't know. I don't even like them on my pizza.
Hmm! Do mushrooms produce spores?
Good personification on the second, fifth and last lines.
Good luck in the contest!
Comment Written 22-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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Yes, that is how they reproduce, puffballs look amazing in slow motion. Thanks for reading.
Comment from hullabaloo22
It's not often that I have come across a poem about fungi. I really enjoyed the short read as you took us from the very start of the life of a mushroom to its end. A great picture too.
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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It's not often that I have come across a poem about fungi. I really enjoyed the short read as you took us from the very start of the life of a mushroom to its end. A great picture too.
Comment Written 22-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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Thank you
Comment from dragonpoet
Hi Mark
This poem says a lot in a few words and uses personification well to show the short life of this mushroom.
Keep writing and stay healthy.
Good luck in the contest
Have a great day
Joan
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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Hi Mark
This poem says a lot in a few words and uses personification well to show the short life of this mushroom.
Keep writing and stay healthy.
Good luck in the contest
Have a great day
Joan
Comment Written 22-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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Will do my best thank you.
Comment from tempeste
Ciao!
I love eating fresh mushrooms in my risotti but I would not dare pick them.
I see many on my autumn walks in my woods ( less in my pine forest) but I know there are also some that are poisonous.
We have a center where people can bring them and an expert will tell you if they are safe to eat.
The spores are cool to watch on film in slow motion
some spout like a sneeze
but others make the same wave movements a storm of swallows perform hours before they migrate. A murmuration.
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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Ciao!
I love eating fresh mushrooms in my risotti but I would not dare pick them.
I see many on my autumn walks in my woods ( less in my pine forest) but I know there are also some that are poisonous.
We have a center where people can bring them and an expert will tell you if they are safe to eat.
The spores are cool to watch on film in slow motion
some spout like a sneeze
but others make the same wave movements a storm of swallows perform hours before they migrate. A murmuration.
Comment Written 22-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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This is an excerpt from a longer poem I wrote. I described the spores as a nebula. Idea from slow-motion footage.
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A great comparison! ☺️
🍄🟫 🌌 🍄🟫
You should have posted the whole poem .😕
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17 syllables so I changed it. I might post the full one sometime.
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Sometimes I?m tempted to post a small part of a bigger a poem .. it?s not the best choice.
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I am always rewriting and reworking. Turning prose into poetry and visa versa. Creating short from long and long from short. Saves me having new ideas everyday.
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When did you start writing poetry/ prose?
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On and off all my life. But I started writing every day, (almost) six months ago.
Comment from karenina
You not only tried... you succeeded!
Fifteen syllables!
(Where were you when I was struggling to learn about fungi in school...from a five pound textbook?)
Karenina
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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You not only tried... you succeeded!
Fifteen syllables!
(Where were you when I was struggling to learn about fungi in school...from a five pound textbook?)
Karenina
Comment Written 22-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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They are a little more complicated than their fruiting bodies. Thank you.
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Now that's an understatement!
Comment from GWHARGIS
I love the image of the mushroom expelling the spores . Like something out of a nature documentary. I could see it happening in slow motion. Very well written. Gretchen
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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I love the image of the mushroom expelling the spores . Like something out of a nature documentary. I could see it happening in slow motion. Very well written. Gretchen
Comment Written 21-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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Thank you.
Comment from royowen
This is an excellent poem Mark, even though the mushroom lives in damp dark places, it can both nourish and poison men, but it has an amazing way of perpetuating itself, well done my friend, blessings Roy
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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This is an excellent poem Mark, even though the mushroom lives in damp dark places, it can both nourish and poison men, but it has an amazing way of perpetuating itself, well done my friend, blessings Roy
Comment Written 21-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2024
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Thank you.
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Welcome
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Welcome
