#lichen - Hello Poetry

You work in strange buildings that look like reconstituted dinosaur thought... A smelly half smile, with capsule slogans You keep the divide well, healthy, open... For those who see straight through your empty notion... All of you is lizard leather, shooting feathers Numbing intelligence for data is clever... Can’t get a grip on you... I’m lichen– crystal; falling into wild weather Waiting in mirrors far from you... Watching your persuasion wither.

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Aug 20, 2025

Aug 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM UTC

SeismicNought

Lichen Crystal

You work in strange buildings that look like reconstituted dinosaur thought... A smelly half smile, with capsule slogans You keep the divide well, healthy, open... For those who see straight through your empty notion... All of you is lizard leather, shooting feathers Numbing intelligence for data is clever... Can’t get a grip on you... I’m lichen– crystal; falling into wild weather Waiting in mirrors far from you... Watching your persuasion wither.

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I was very pleased to find A fungus that sometimes (not always) May contain algae And so may be described As partially lichenised So when I can't make up my mind I am just evolving me I'm not divided Undecided Only naturalised

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May 16, 2019

May 16, 2019 at 6:39 PM UTC

Bluebell

Complicated taxonomy

I was very pleased to find A fungus that sometimes (not always) May contain algae And so may be described As partially lichenised So when I can't make up my mind I am just evolving me I'm not divided Undecided Only naturalised

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Just as the lichen climbs up on the tree, So too does she grow further on me

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Oct 18, 2018

Oct 18, 2018 at 11:24 AM UTC

Notorious_VIG

Lichen

Just as the lichen climbs up on the tree, So too does she grow further on me

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lichen shrouded logs laid still on the forest's floor their bones rotting

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Apr 17, 2017

Apr 17, 2017 at 9:36 PM UTC

ElizabethSquires

Haiku

lichen shrouded logs laid still on the forest's floor their bones rotting

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froths in lichen: gushing on its bark, it looks like pollen was smeared on in yellow gouache, ulcers spread to lick on to each branch. I let it take over in the way you spread your arms over bed and torso, in the way your kiss through the mornings paint my cheeks red.

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Aug 14, 2014

Aug 14, 2014 at 9:54 PM UTC

conor-letham

A tree out back

froths in lichen: gushing on its bark, it looks like pollen was smeared on in yellow gouache, ulcers spread to lick on to each branch. I let it take over in the way you spread your arms over bed and torso, in the way your kiss through the mornings paint my cheeks red.

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