The Challenger’s Word: Mushroom – Funny

Provided by the bloggers Adriana and Jessica

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Although sometimes seen as intrudors or unwanted plants, mushrooms build a remarkable symbiosis with there hosts – good or bad. Even within the community of fungi, without each other a mushroom is can never be as strong as alone.

The sytle of poem is simple: A A B B

I give you:

Mushroom

By Gregor

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Once deep inside woods unknown

Carpets of shrooms, fully grown,

Populate a fallen tree

Building a community.

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All the fungi gloom so bright

With blueish colours day and night.

In this ocean the mushroom form

Only one stands out of every norm.

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The trunk was whiter than the other greys,

In different heights its body sways.

The most iconic difference it had,

Instead of blue its hat was red.

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The agaric being was feared by others,

Even though he never bothers

Any of his fungal brothers

Or freshlings growing near their mothers.

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But there was no reason to be afraid.

It spoke nicely, always offered to aid.

Still the disconformity did not end

Because it was too different.

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Although in the crowd, it was alone.

Its heart almost turned into stone.

But the misery had a sudden change

When figures appeared, looking strange.

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Instead of one, they had feet two.

Arms growing from the shoulders too.

Giant Hands, like a killing hound,

Rip the mushrooms from the ground.

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Half of the carpet was already torn

When the giant’s voice loud like a horn:

“Before the soup turn into waste,

I should try one regarding its taste!”

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The giant hand reached out blind

Into the basket, a picked one to find.

To save a freighted fungus, not a friend,

The red mushroom jumped into the hand.

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The bite was quick, and without a cry

The mushroom waived his flock goodbye.

Without regrets the shroom so lonely

Saved the others one and only.

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The giant intruder started to gag,

Stumbled around and fell of its leg.

After time the dead body was cool.

The red fungus was a toadstool.

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And so, a story in poetic creation

Was told from this to the next generation

About a hero and its martyrdom:

The Legend of the red mushroom.

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