tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370002500026191812.post867705730405071077..comments2023-07-28T00:34:28.778-07:00Comments on California Imagism Gallery: Six Days of Poems about PlantsJohn Brantinghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355349090930672315noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370002500026191812.post-57660896828878729712020-05-03T11:55:01.065-07:002020-05-03T11:55:01.065-07:00we love our oak
here is my desert home
shade to th...we love our oak<br />here is my desert home<br />shade to the coyoteThomas Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13948931444778970870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370002500026191812.post-66090982215681960792020-04-28T12:41:52.476-07:002020-04-28T12:41:52.476-07:00Drive through places
Scrub oak and stone
Hewn clos...Drive through places<br />Scrub oak and stone<br />Hewn close to dry land and casting islands of shadow<br />Dark pools in hills of golden grass.<br /><br />Leaves like ears shriveled by wind and not enough conversation<br />But you’ll never once hear them complain<br />No matter how<br />Heat blistered<br />Old<br />Kyle Monhollenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00446482343306462824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370002500026191812.post-9748723074367540522020-04-27T22:00:22.467-07:002020-04-27T22:00:22.467-07:00The dunes,
for a child an endless playground.
...The dunes, <br /><br />for a child an endless playground. <br /><br />For plants and animals, an eternal blanket of existence.<br /><br />Sanddune sedge~~<br /><br /> carex pansa<br /><br /> calflora <3wronggurl4Uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15157386852496706334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370002500026191812.post-24892014936280687142020-04-26T11:05:03.465-07:002020-04-26T11:05:03.465-07:00Poison Oak
Leaves of three, let it be
scourge of ...Poison Oak<br /><br />Leaves of three, let it be<br />scourge of hikers, golfers with exposed knees<br />Lush or stemmed or ashed<br />Transforms my legs, arms, body into a rash.<br />Dared to be aligned with oak<br />Nastiest of weeds in an evil cloak <br />an itch, a burn, a constant scream<br />No calamine can ease this demon green.<br />And yet<br />Indigenous tribes used its leaves<br />created poultices from its angry seeds<br />For rattlesnake bites or dysentery<br />A more forgiving apothecary.<br /><br />Rick Stepp-Bolling<br />esteppbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026912956948958863noreply@blogger.com