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02-03-2009, 06:35 AM

Ode to Mushrooms - the best happy shroom poem ever

Mushrooms, Sylvia Plath (13 November 1959)

Overnight, very
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly

Our toes, our noses
Take hold on the loam,
Acquire the air.

Nobody sees us,
stops us, betrays us;
The small grains make room.

Soft fists insist on
Heaving the needles,
The leafy bedding,

Even the paving.
Our hammers, our rams,
Earless and eyeless,

Perfectly voiceless,
Widen the crannies,
Shoulder through holes. We

Diet on water,
On crumbs of shadow,
Bland-mannered, asking

Little or nothing.
So many of us!
So many of us!

We are shelves, we are
Tables, we are meek,
We are edible,

Nudgers and shovers
In spite of ourselves. Our kind multiplies:

We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door.

Sylvia Plath Collected Poems, Edited with an Introduction by Ted Hughes, Faber and Faber Ltd., 1981.

02-03-2009, 06:35 AM	#3
no caste Guest Posts: n/a	Re: 6 Ways shrooms can save the world Ode to Mushrooms - the best happy shroom poem ever Mushrooms, Sylvia Plath (13 November 1959) Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air. Nobody sees us, stops us, betrays us; The small grains make room. Soft fists insist on Heaving the needles, The leafy bedding, Even the paving. Our hammers, our rams, Earless and eyeless, Perfectly voiceless, Widen the crannies, Shoulder through holes. We Diet on water, On crumbs of shadow, Bland-mannered, asking Little or nothing. So many of us! So many of us! We are shelves, we are Tables, we are meek, We are edible, Nudgers and shovers In spite of ourselves. Our kind multiplies: We shall by morning Inherit the earth. Our foot's in the door. Sylvia Plath Collected Poems, Edited with an Introduction by Ted Hughes, Faber and Faber Ltd., 1981.