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Exploding Seeds

November 14, 2007 by 6 Comments
Macro Milkweed Exploding Seeds

Milkweed Exploding Seeds © 2007

Exploding seed pods
Glimmering silk parachutes
They shoot forth white strands
attached to brown propellers.
Milky seeds shimmer in flight.

The milkweed plant offers a lovely show when it disperses its seeds. The above poem is a tanka; its form is 5-7-5-7-7 syllables.

Photographed at Governor Nelson State Park near Westport, Wisconsin in October, 2007.

To see an earlier set of photos of the life cycle of the milkweed plant – spring, summer and fall – go to http://gardengrow.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/milkweed-life-cycle/

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Comments

  1. cruxphoto says
    November 14, 2007 at 12:50 pm

    I like the highlights of the sun. Very nice!

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  2. truddle says
    November 14, 2007 at 3:39 pm

    Beautiful photo- it invokes the imagination!

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  3. ankush says
    November 14, 2007 at 4:24 pm

    lovely!

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  4. Aiyana says
    November 15, 2007 at 1:05 am

    Great photo!
    Aiyana

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  5. nouveaufauves says
    November 15, 2007 at 1:26 am

    This is just too much! What a great shot. This photo could do everything from hanging in a Yoga studio to gracing the pages of a text book.

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  6. barbara says
    November 18, 2007 at 2:36 pm

    Thanks, everyone. The prairie provides some very quiet, very powerful subjects.

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