We’re overcrowded,
we’ve no room,
move over,
skedaddle,
shove over,
split,
quit!
That spot
there is bare,
lay your root
in that stony crack,
it’ll be fun
it’ll have what we lack.
And don’t come back.
Copyright 2016 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: This is a persona poem, with a recent photo as inspiration. Laura Shovan, author of the delightful new novel-in-verse, The Last Fifth Grade at Emerson Elementary, issued the challenge on Today’s Little Ditty.
Happy Poetry Friday and Hello Weekend, I see you hiding there! Thanks to Margaret at Reflections at the Teche for hosting this week down on Louisiana’s Bayou Teche.
49 thoughts on “Colonize”
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Very cute. Still, awfully pretty flowers.
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Thanks, Toni. 🙂
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This was such a warm and wonderful bit of whimsical delight, Brenda. 🙂
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Thanks, Robin. 🙂 I’m afraid I was thinking of my ancestors, suggesting that emigrating was a wonderful idea.
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Lovely – the picture and poem work together perfectly.
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Thanks, Sheryl!
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If we listen closely, even the flowers can speak!
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Yes, and I was quite surprised by what they said. LOL
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Interesting and intriguing, and picture is beautiful.
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Thank you.
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(So that’s how plants end up growing in sidewalk cracks!) For such a gentle-looking mauve plant, your flower persona has a lot of gumption.
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The prettier, the more tenacious the privilege. LOL
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Find a new home with your rhizome…and results will be just “vine”. 😀
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LOL Good one.
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“PUN-ishing, huh?”
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
BUT THEY ARE STILL CONNECTED…BY A RHIZOME–ACTUALLY A MODIFIED STEM FROM WHICH ROOTS, LEAVES AND FLOWERS APPEAR IN AN APPROPRIATE SPOT! 😀
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Are rhizome and RNA the same? 😉
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NOPE! R.N.A. is genetic material that helps copy DNA. A rhizome is a horizontal stem that can have several plants on it, all connected. Think of Morning Glories—the vine part is a rhizome.
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Sorry, I was joking. I’m a gardener so I can cut a rhizome with the best of them. I was being too subtle. Forget it. 🙂
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DON’T YOU REMEMBER….I always play the straight man! 😀
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Gotcha!
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😀
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What a fun read it was…:-) and the picture is apt….
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Thank you!
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Ah, poor flowers. So pretty and so unwelcome. 🙂 🙂
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LOL Yes!
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Delightful! 🙂
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Thank you!
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I like your persona poem, Brenda. The title aligns quite nicely with the photo and words. Do you want this one to go into Spring’s Seeds? Let me know.
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I don’t know if I have time to learn a new software between now and the 31st. So many projects, so little time. I’ll see if I can manage to combine the words and photo somehow… If not, you have my Cultivar. XOXO
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I love this poem! Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
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what blue meanies!!
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LOL Yes, indeed.
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What a fun poem. Love the whimsy :). And another great photo!
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Thanks, Jama. It was fun trying persona poems.
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“And don’t come back” – perfect ending! Perfect pairing! A good spring poem for Carol Varsalona’s gallery, don’t you think?
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A great thought. Carol does beautiful galleries. I did send her a poem. I hope you did, too. 🙂
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Ha! Of course they want more room! (Now I’m humming Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”…. thank you!
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LOL What a good anthem for the poem.
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Well done, Brenda! Your poem and the photo go so perfectly. And that ending, ha!
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I’m so glad you like it. 🙂
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Wonderful, Brenda. I don’t know if I like “split, quit” or the ending more. Another great persona poem!
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Thanks, Linda!! Yay!
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Funny how you can hear those flowers yelling for more room. Move over, here we come.
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Thanks, Margaret. I loved your drumming poem. It rocked. 😉
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Such a funny little poem, Brenda! It reminds me of the Fourth of July. You’d think folks would realize that there’s a good view of the fireworks wherever you are in the field. Well done on TWO persona poems… and making them so different, too!
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Thanks, Michelle. I like your interpretation. Thanks for all your hard work on TLD and your inspiring challenges. And thanks for that nudge you gave me to give them a try, way back when. 🙂
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😄😄😄 Funny!! 🌸🌸
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