#venus slipper

[wikipediapictures]

Paphiopedilum subg. Cochlopetalum

[araphielsgarden]

Paphiopedilum insigne

[mediocrebirding]

A particularly dark Paphiopedilum hybrid.

Paphiopedilum, often called the Venus slipper, is a genus of the Lady slipper orchid subfamily Cypripedioideae of the flowering plant family Orchidaceae. The genus comprises some 80 accepted taxa including several natural hybrids.

[manymistypes]

venus slipper 1-3

I’m belatedly beginning poetry month, so here are three poems out of a project I'm working on called “venus slipper”. maybe you’ll get to see the rest of them this month?? 

Pt1

Venus slipper Pink Marabou Red leather hell haver Walk away whistling Spit moon rising Every orifice wide open for glisteningness

Once weekly two dozen young people Looking naked at you somehow unstrange

A pizza dough person Kneaded needed kneaded

Fuzzy pollen collecting bee bits Collect pollen as nectar lovers Love nectar as sun shines Everything could said to be like daffodils under snow Just like candy that girl is poison

Pt2 Anything could be called this way You could be call me Venus slipper

me in marabou Myrtle

Definite disguise Late whiskey wave licking Liquor lapper lap licker

If I'm flesh made sentient How being so damn wretched So damned so damnedly

Maryland doctors Absolutely livid Over one easy way To live forever in Your youth body

Myrtle making Sea sperm floating Foam flower clothing Angels attending Those qualities desirable desiring Venus fly trapping

A perfect example of simile verses metaphor And in this both are easily consumed

I dive Down deliberate Dug grave Your plump reticence Vine hanging Ripe and waiting Bite taken You fail to follow

Pomegranate left rotting Eviscerate me daddy

Pt 3

An ear hidden in hair Brush aside wide and Finder awakened

She She the glass protecting Showing fire proof of profession Hard work pink light lighter pink Display the flame

I gasp and burn myself thrice on Liquid blue hot

Breath douser Love arouser

Morning dew dawn dripper Peeps in thru window

Lace quietly the lovers Askin’ like where like what Like is this what like it looking like When two entwiners entwined Yea and Verily the entwined call

The sun flushed rises to high noon

--Anna K Crooks

[clairity-org]

Como Zoo Park Zoo & Conservatory 4/11/24 by Sharon Mollerus

[whateverbringsyouthroughthenight]

got Andrea a Venus Slipper... wonder how long it'll like it here in the north...

[manymistypes]

Papaya-er watering Hand holding can spout Water dispensing

Each sprinkling miraculous Each metaphor generous

Fruit-bearing no small Feet-first in frigid Water alight with last day sun Your picture weighted

Venus Vajazzled Pink Marabou Slipper Wearing Sheer Negligee

LIFE FROM NOTHING FROM LIFE NOTHING

Noting nothing Nothing anointed

Your simulacra Heavy on the hanging place

--Anna K Croos

[wujuliketodraw-blog]

From my last visit to the botany garden in Budapest.

A Paphiopedilum of a sort... A Venus slipper :B

Interesting orchid, really.