New Leaf celebrates the National Day of whatever it is

[BrianIsSmilingAtYou]

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Discovery

From a blade of grass, the smallest dewdrop hung:
          a paintbox
filled with colors made to brush a rainbow
all across my day.


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I returned again only to discover that Discovery has not had anything to follow it. I wrote a haiku yesterday that reminds me of this, looking so closely at the world, the grass. Hope to se you return./

BrianIs AtYou

[new leaf]

Hi, my sweet fluffy friends, thanks for keeping the thread company - I was called away to other tasks, back to catch up - as usual.

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Overheard While Walking Around El Cachote

In the cloud forest
every day, the fog coming in again,

the type of forest where the solenodon lives,
the ancient lineage of mammals.

We're high enough to see the five needled pine. Look at the cone,
those spiky umbels on each scale.

Let's step into the fern dungeon: ferns growing on ferns,
a monster tongue fern here - look at those sporangia!

In the nettle family, coevolution with megafauna:
Looks mean, spines all up and down the stem, no flowers.

A whole damn tree just covered with epiphytes; all that tillandsia,
tiny orchids everywhere - bright red little flags.

So much diversity right on the side of the road;
beneath it all, the chalky white limestone.

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Take a walk here, to see and hear the rest of the story.

[Sorella]

Malinda,
Lovely poetic and specific report from a cloud forest!
I once visited the Paraná Province in Brazil -- a magical experience.
Your ability to blend poetry and botany is amazing and enriching!
A guide and the guided both, is what I overhear.
Sorella

[Dunc]

Malinda

Overheard While Walking Around El Cachote ─ Verse on, great leader and teacher! I love it when you talk Linnaean! Especially those dirty adjectives! And a cloud forest thrown in!

Welcome back!

Regards / Dunc

[GreaterMandalaofUselessness]

Hi Malinda,

This is a lovely descriptive piece. The smattering of unfamiliar latinate words (solenodon, tillandsia) adds to the sense of this being an unfamiliar world and mixes in seamlessly with the vivid imagery. Also, many thanks for introducing me to the solendodon. I'm off to find a different video that the one you linked to, though. One that sounds like your poem poem's narrator is narrating it!

-Matt

[Cameron Clark]

Overheard... is a beautifully-sonic experience. I can almost hear the twigs of the cloud-forest swinging, and the slow music of the limestone.

[kamala]

Malinda,
liking your found book-title poems. But Discovery is even better, and I really enjoyed the vivid planty detail in Overheard.
Hope you come back with more, but it's been good to read you again, anyway.

[new leaf]

Sorella, Matt, Dunc, Cam, and Kam - thank you all so much for coming to visit and leave your thoughtful fluff. It's not an easy year, but I think with a little extra push I can finish up after all.

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Maps for Lost Lovers

The road.
This is how you lose her:
swallowing geography,

reading in the dark,
crossing the border
provinces of night,

a piece of the world.
Follow me down
the long way home.

While I was gone
you were here,
the world below

finding the center,
the limit,
the point.


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National Read a Road Map Day

A book title poem, found here

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Caramel Popcorn Lune

Brown edges
tint white lilac balls
delicious


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National Caramel Popcorn Day
a Kelly lune

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Lazy Lune

Day of rest
with mop, broom and me
vacuum cleaner naps


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National No Housework Day
a Collum Lune

[Scrow]

Hey,

Good to have you back.

'Map for Lost Lovers' is a lovely idea, and I like your sparse, neat writing style as we are led into the underworld to find our lost ones.

Lazy Lune is great, too!

Sarah

[romac1]

Maps for Lost Lovers is an interesting idea, as if a point of reference is found in a world of the lost, an underworld, even if they miss each other in the here and now. Lazy Lune is fun. Even vacuum cleaners need a day off, I guess.

[Donner]

Hi, Malinda,

"Lazy Lune" - Depending on how you want it read, you could switch "with" to "for", so it's a day of rest for the trio, or it could be read as written, with the vacuum cleaner taking the nap with the others. Amazing how many takes you can have with 11 words.

Donna