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Lit Poems

Light to Darkness

Hope

Bright, optimistic

Shining, guiding, enlivening

Encouraging, light, obscurity, melancholy

Grieving, depriving, losing,

Gloomy, absent

Death

By brownies97

Black

My eyes are brown,

Red is how I feel about my mother;

Black is the color

Of the loss of my brother.

Yellow is the color of a comrade,

White is the color of a new daughter;

Black is Hitler taking

Away my father.

Tan is the empty ground,

Gray is the loss of love;

Black is having all

Your loved ones sent above.

By Liesel

What's that smell?

This is a picture of the corpse flower.

Phew! What's that rotten smell? Well if you are near a 44.5-inch plant in the Western Illinois University Botany Greenhouse, you are probably near a corpse flower. The corpse flower was first founded in 1878 by Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari who collected the seeds and offered the seeds to England's Botanic Gardens in Kew. As a result, the corpse flower planted in these gardens marked the first successful cultivation in history.The corpse flower has a foul-smelling flower that smells like rotten meat. Its stench becomes more ghastly during blooming process because that it when the plant heats up. Secondly, the corpse flower's bloom is not made up of one flower, but is actually made up of thousands of flowers.

The corpse flower just bloomed last week in the Western Illinois University Botany Greenhouse, releasing a powerful wretched odor. In addition, it was tended by greenhouse gardener Jeff Hillyer. He says this Titan never bloomed in the past 8 years, but only grew a leaf that looks like an umbrella.

To sum it up, although the corpse flowers is foul-smelling and takes years to grow, with a little patience, Jeff made it bloom. This can teach us a lesson that if we want to achieve a goal, we should put in time and have a little patience to make it bloom.

Information taken from http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/corpse-flower-blooms-100503.html.
Picture was taken from http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID8294/images/corpseflower.jpg.