Today, Day 687 of the daily poems 21 October 2024, is the 252nd anniversary of the birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834. Is this our poet AndyRoo? It is an ancient Mariner, and he stoppeth one of three. With his long grey beard and glittering eye, “I have a short Found Poem for thee! It comes from an article in The Guardian last week, titled, ‘Fungi could be given same status as flora and fauna under new conservation plan’. I took the first phrase of the second paragraph, adding three phrases nearly adjacent to one another from the third …” “Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!”
The rime of the ancient Fungi
Mushrooms, mould, mildew, yeast
pledge for fungal conservation
recognition of fungi as an independent
kingdom of life in legislation
AndyRoo
adapted from The Guardian