What was the last book of poetry that you read? and Pachystachys lutea #1

What was the last book of poetry that you read?

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Answer by aidan402
Last night...A Child's Garden Of Verse...I read a poem every other night to my grand daughter.
For myself, an obscure, unknown poet from Cambridge, Massachusetts. A self published book of verse by a man who was a walking tour guide.
It's called...
Old Cambridge and Other Poems by George F. Pearson
Here's a sample...
from: Thoreau's Cabin

Some day, my friend, when you've the time to spare--
Just come with me to Walden, it was there--
Where Thoreau lived--you know the man I mean--
A man who loved the wild, with habits clean,
Clean as the wave-kissed sand upon the shore
That glistened there before his open door.
(first verse of three)

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Pachystachys lutea #1


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Acanthaceae - Peru
Golden Shrimp Plant, Yellow Shrimp Plant, Lollipop Plant
Shown: Detail of inflorescence; a raceme composed of brightly colored, overlapping bracts; the true flowers (a white tubular corolla) emerge from the axils of the bracts

"Pachystachys lutea, known by the common names Lollipop Plant and Golden Shrimp Plant, is a subtropical, soft-stemmed evergreen shrub between 36 and 48 inches (90 and 120 cm) tall. The zygomorphic, long-throated, short-lived white flowers emerge sequentially from overlapping bright yellow bracts on racemes that are produced throughout the warm months. It is a popular landscape plant in tropical and subtropical areas of the world." (Wikipedia)


The other widely cultivated "Shrimp Plant" is Justicia brandegeeana:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justicia_brandegeeana

Photographed in my garden in San Francisco, California

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