Bolete [Haiku]

soggy forest floor:
bolete stands in the mulch
with crimson cap.

Red [Haiku]

its red cap
gives the mushroom away,
hiding in leaf litter.

Straight & Tall [Haiku]

slender-stalked mushroom 
stands straight & tall & still,
but not for long.

Misty Mountain [Haiku]

Photograph of mushroom caps among lichens and leaves, taken in the mountains near Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.
in misty mountains,
tiny fungi bloom amid
lichens and mosses.

DAILY PHOTO: Mushroom’s Eye View

Fungi Time [Haiku]

mushroom stands tall;
wasn’t there the day before,
may be gone the next.

PROMPT: Photo

Daily writing prompt
Go on a walk today and share a photo of something that catches your eye.
Photograph of a large amanita mushroom on a walk in the woods.

DAILY PHOTO: Fairy Tale Mushroom Village

Image

Photograph of a mushroom village taken in Chiang Mai at Buak Haad Park (สวนสาธารณะหนองบวกหาด) during the Flower Show.

Lingzhi (灵芝) [Haiku]

Ge Hong's Elixir?
it does turn rotten wood
into comely art.

“The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants” (1350) by Emily Dickinson

The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants --
At Evening, it is not
At Morning, in a Truffled Hut
It stop opon a Spot

As if it tarried always
And yet it's whole Career
Is shorter than a Snake's Delay --
And fleeter than a Tare --

'Tis Vegetation's Juggler --
The Germ of Alibi --
Doth like a Bubble antedate
And like a Bubble, hie --

I feel as if the Grass was pleased
To have it intermit --
This surreptitious Scion
Of Summer's circumspect.

Had Nature any supple Face
Or could she one contemn --
Had Nature an Apostate --
That Mushroom -- it is Him!