deep inside purple
dropping Chicago’s pollen
so quick, bloom is gone
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It’s over. The flower has closed back up
deep inside purple
dropping Chicago’s pollen
so quick, bloom is gone
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It’s over. The flower has closed back up
don’t know dead body’s smell
smells like manure aroma
ten year’s first blossom
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I stood in line for more than an hour to enter the butterfly room which housed
corpse flower, please bloom
we all are watching. Don’t be shy!
live feed streamed worldwide
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Live video feed of the corpse at the Tucson Botanical Garden. It only blooms after 10 years and for about 24-36 hours. If you go to the you-tube feed, people are commenting live while they wait. It is going to bloom any minute — hence the live feed. It’s real name is Amorphophallus Titanum. I’d tell you what that means but we’re PG, lol. (I knew that would make you run to your latin dictionary!)
The Garden hope to pollinate it within the short blooming window. Every once
Fluently flippant
flouncing flummadiddle fluke
flench that flimflam
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I don’t know. I just like the way FLs roll. Now try to say this 3x really fast.
It’s catastrophic!
cachexic calamities
cataclasmic cause
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lost on the tarmac
honeymoon in the airport
jetlagged and jilted
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whatever you wish times are a-changing, master my turn for a wish senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere genie daily prompts, daily post image: a vest back I did a while ago in Second Life
space, final frontier
orbiting orangutans?
micro water bears
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a tad OCD
get involved, cranking out thoughts
fresh intense routines
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I like the word “crank” because it has some fun meanings that fits when you get
song tapping my mind
lyrics bubbling through the pen
who can add the notes
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11:58 pm — cutting it close so posting it and finishing it after.
ok, now to finish. I think it’s natural for poets to write lyrics because that’s all