Carpe Diem #139, Shitamoe (sprouting grasses and forbs)

Well, I learned a new word today.  Forb [altenatively spelt phorb] is a category of herbaceous flowering plants that includes clover, sunflower and milkweed.  I also recently learned that milkweed is the only food source for the monarch butterfly.

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green grass rises
throws off its blanket of snow
stretches toward the sun

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purple clover
casts green grass in bold relief
a bee buzzes

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bright golden flower
smiles up at its eponym
on a spring morning

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drinking green tea
very good for you - alas
tastes like lawn clippings

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lowly milkweed
such a humble beginning
new monarch rises


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goose grows sunflowers
moose plays the stock market
both like to read Forbes

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bugs flit in milkweed
the hopeful insect hunter
spider casts her net

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Carpe Diem #139