Scrumptious Soup

[Volaticus]

A specimen here, a specimen there -
chop 'em into a pot and stir with care.
Then add to the mix a magical 'shroom
to enhance the flavor and shroud your gloom.
The finished product; a wonderful soup,
with mushroomy traits in hominal goop.

[Vistaldust]

Great flow and choice in rhyming. I'm trying to figure out why there is a need to shroud gloom. I take shroud as something used to preserve. I'm trying to find a reason why you would choose a feeling like gloom in this context.

[milo]

Great flow and choice in rhyming. I'm trying to figure out why there is a need to shroud gloom. I take shroud as something used to preserve. I'm trying to find a reason why you would choose a feeling like gloom in this context.

shroud can also be to cover up.

[Volaticus]

Great flow and choice in rhyming. I'm trying to figure out why there is a need to shroud gloom. I take shroud as something used to preserve. I'm trying to find a reason why you would choose a feeling like gloom in this context.

Hi,
Thanks a lot for your feedback, I appreciate it.
As milo pointed out, 'shroud' also means to cover up, and that was my intention with using that word. I hope that clears it up.
Best,
LB

[Leanne]

I wonder if this was the poem Lewis Carroll meant to write? He was certainly under the influence of something fungal when he wrote his ode.

Most enjoyable!

[tectak]

A specimen here, a specimen there -
chop 'em into a pot and stir with care.
Then add to the mix a magical 'shroom
to enhance the flavor and shroud your gloom.
The finished product; a wonderful soup,
with mushroomy traits in hominal goop.

Lepiota rhacodes, Marasmius oreades
Agaricus bisporus, Flammulina velutipes,
Boletus edulis, Amanita fulva,
Soup.
Psilocybe semilanceata.
Fun.
Amanita phalloides.
Dead

Best,
great fun,
tectak

[Volaticus]

I wonder if this was the poem Lewis Carroll meant to write? He was certainly under the influence of something fungal when he wrote his ode.

Most enjoyable!

Hi Leanne,

Thank you so much for your kind comments. I'm glad you enjoyed the poem. I'm somewhat familiar with Lewis Carroll, but I'm not sure which ode you mean?
Thanks again.

Best,
Louise

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A specimen here, a specimen there -
chop 'em into a pot and stir with care.
Then add to the mix a magical 'shroom
to enhance the flavor and shroud your gloom.
The finished product; a wonderful soup,
with mushroomy traits in hominal goop.

Lepiota rhacodes, Marasmius oreades
Agaricus bisporus, Flammulina velutipes,
Boletus edulis, Amanita fulva,
Soup.
Psilocybe semilanceata.
Fun.
Amanita phalloides.
Dead

Best,
great fun,
tectak

Hi tectac,
Thanks for commenting; I appreciate it, and I'm glad you liked the poem. I'm not sure, though, that I understood all the Latin. But I got some of it ;-)
Best,
Louise

[Bunx]

i do enjoy this poem! i feel as it is from a the perceptive of a wise omniscient alien that's mind is simply being blown by the greatest of all specimens, a fine tasty stew. made with love, and care. just like this poem!

[Volaticus]

i do enjoy this poem! i feel as it is from a the perceptive of a wise omniscient alien that's mind is simply being blown by the greatest of all specimens, a fine tasty stew. made with love, and care. just like this poem!

Hi Bunx,
Thanks for your kind feedback, I appreciate it very much. And I'm glad you enjoyed the poem.
It's nice to hear another person's view of the narrator. I just thought of the witch from 'Hansel and Gretel'.
Thanks again.
Best,
Louise

[Leanne]

Soup of the Evening, sometimes called Beautiful Soup, from Alice in Wonderland... yum.

[Volaticus]

Soup of the Evening, sometimes called Beautiful Soup, from Alice in Wonderland... yum.

Thanks a bunch

[Vistaldust]

Shroud to cover up......of course! I was getting all "Shroud of Turin" preserve-the-corpse kind of thing. Yes, I can go straight to morbid before a simpler understanding pops up. Thanks for pulling me back to the more obvious definition. Very nice verse?

[tectak]

I wonder if this was the poem Lewis Carroll meant to write? He was certainly under the influence of something fungal when he wrote his ode.

Most enjoyable!

Hi Leanne,

Thank you so much for your kind comments. I'm glad you enjoyed the poem. I'm somewhat familiar with Lewis Carroll, but I'm not sure which ode you mean?
Thanks again.

Best,
Louise

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A specimen here, a specimen there -
chop 'em into a pot and stir with care.
Then add to the mix a magical 'shroom
to enhance the flavor and shroud your gloom.
The finished product; a wonderful soup,
with mushroomy traits in hominal goop.

Lepiota rhacodes, Marasmius oreades
Agaricus bisporus, Flammulina velutipes,
Boletus edulis, Amanita fulva,
Soup.
Psilocybe semilanceata.
Fun.
Amanita phalloides.
Dead

Best,
great fun,
tectak

Hi tectac,
Thanks for commenting; I appreciate it, and I'm glad you liked the poem. I'm not sure, though, that I understood all the Latin. But I got some of it ;-)
Best,
Louise

Hi Vol.
You don't need to understand the Latin.I'm a mycologist and I don't understand most fungi names...which is what I listed

Shaggy parasol, Fairy ring
Cultivated mushroom, Velvet shank,
Porcini or Cep, Tawny grisette.
Soup
Magic mushroom.
Fun.
Death Cap.
Dead.

Best,
Tom