Plants Poems

FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A plaintful story from a sistering vale,
My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,
And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale;
Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,
Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,
Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain.
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You're in this dream of cotton plants.
You raise a hoe, swing, and the first weeds
Fall with a sigh. You take another step,
Chop, and the sigh comes again,
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desert sucks upper water to store in the deep
trees, plants, herbs and grasses are about to die
sunshine reflects on mirages there
mirages elude and mislead the travelers,
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when God created love he didn't help most
when God created dogs He didn't help dogs
when God created plants that was average
when God created hate we had a standard utility
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FAREWELL, thou little Nook of mountain-ground,
Thou rocky corner in the lowest stair
Of that magnificent temple which doth bound
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Earliest morning, switching all the tracks
that cross the sky from cinder star to star,
coupling the ends of streets
to trains of light.
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My father is a quiet man
With sober, steady ways;
For simile, a folded fan;
His nights are like his days.
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Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood!
If our great Mother has imbued my soul
With aught of natural piety to feel
Your love, and recompense the boon with mine;
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Less time than it takes to say it, less tears than it takes to die; I've taken account of everything,
there you have it. I've made a census of the stones, they are as numerous as my fingers and some
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[Book 1]
I am like,
They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows
Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth
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Always for the first time
Hardly do I know you by sight
You return at some hour of the night to a house at an angle to my window
A wholly imaginary house
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My house is near a sea
The sea is my neighbour
I understand the sea
But the sea does not understand me,
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I love to rise in a summer morn
When the birds sing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me.
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In these deep solitudes and awful cells,
Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells,
And ever-musing melancholy reigns;
What means this tumult in a vestal's veins?
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Rain beats down on the window pane
As the flood gates of Heaven suddenly open
It is pouring out in torrential flow
Like a Reservoir, all at once, broken
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Orpheus with his lute made trees
And the mountain tops that freeze
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Coming out of home I see some land and much water all around
Full with wonderful animals, plants, myriad of natural objects
Some I can name and some I can't, some near and some are so far
Some open, some covered, some sweet again some are so bitter,
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We're aware
We're aware that between us there's
A haze of ignorance
Our steps but tread the path of our search
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Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves, when he did sing:
To his music plants and flowers
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In the jungle,
The main center of Mother Nature,
Where adventure runs wild.
The drum’s beating loudly,
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(for an image posted by James Koehnline on Jan.18)
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For me this image expresses how some plants develop the supporting parts of a flower into a niche-like housing that serves to highlight the seeds and seed case. The sepal bract and surrounding base of leaves may turn into a succulent mount, like a pedestal. As if Mother Nature chooses this manner of presentation to convey value. In some plants the supporting parts of the flower swell up, get juicy, and fuse into the fruit--- as in an apple. In other plants the calyx develops into a compartmented pod. In a lotus the calyx keeps its original shape, enlarged until it looks like a display case. No wonder people think there are flower fairies. The processes of fructification and pod formation can choose different avenues: for some plants it's centered around the pistil, for some the calyx. In some plants there's a major swelling and wrapping around of the sepals. When a chimerical flower image plays with this theme, it makes me think that we can imagine things through Mother's Nature's eyes. We can think of her riffling through her deck of possibilities, to endow each kind of flower with a particular identity, a seemingly fanciful package of features. There are even fruits in which texture is tweaked for special effects, for instance a pear with its specialized cells for slight grittiness. The suite of identifying features in a given type of seed pod is similarly rich. Considering the potential for variety, it seems we are being served with a feast of visual effects.
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Moving into her first nostalgic apartment
She can only fantasize about having a garden
A green space where her heart won't harden
And the idea of a forbidden apple tree
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Trees and plants are our life, we have to tell this to everyone.
We have to stop the cutting of trees.
This message has to reach every person in the world
Trees and plants have to be saved. Trees and plants have to be saved.
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who feels energy rush before dawn
not those fast asleep in warm beds
who feels energy rush before dawn
feels energy building rising ready to wake
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In Brooklyn Heights, where the city meets the sky,
Professor Emily spoke, her voice a lullaby.
A loft adorned with green, a sanctuary found,
She spoke of love for plants, a love profound.
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Live plants in an aquarium fulfills the desire of having a natural and stable environment for fish and amusement and delight for the pet owners.
These plants act as natural filters in the fish tanks. In order to grow, plants in the aquarium require nitrogen and phosphates. These are abundantly available for plants in any water tank with fish. A low nitrate environment is helpful for healthy fish therefore, it's a win-win situation for healthy fish and plants.
Algae is one of the major concerns for some fish owners. Whereas this is controlled by either cleaning water, or algae regularly. Adequate plantations in the aquarium may reduce the chance of having algae substantially.
Plants in an aquarium make sure that an ecosystem is established in the fish tanks. Plants take care of filtration and fish provide nitrogen and phosphate for the plants. Once it is established then you may have to look after the food and observe changes in water and control light.
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Trees were my childhood friends (along with neighbor, Helen) .
Now trees, and other South Carolina plants, have me YELLIN'.
Oh, it may not be outloud-yelling; I keep some feelings inside,
But, my displeasure with some plants here, I'll not from you hide.
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The flowers are the 'ears' of plants
Listening for the buzz of bees.
The plants take comfort in the chance
Of increased opportunities
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There were liberal field, golden paddy, mild touch of south breeze
And there were you, your beautiful smiles with opening mind

There were jackfruit, plum, mango, palm, and betel-nut trees on the bank of the pond.
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Think about those worms, that wiggle through the land,
they loosen up the soil, so the roots of plants, can expand,

Those plants give off oxygen, to support life on this earth each day,
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