Lichen Poems by Ruma Koromiko

2013

The Icy LichenIt looks like icy water,

It feels like shiny salt,

It looks like a dark blue country,

It shines like crystals,

It smells like a huge crystal tornado,

It feels like shiny ice,

It sounds like crystal echoes,

It feels like lime wool,

It sounds like a sea shell city,

It feels like gold rubber,

The lichen is an iron city.By Sam Harvey

Amazing LichensLichens look like tangled vines, icy and gooey.

Cold weather does not kill them because they shut down, isn’t it incredible?

Lichens are usually not very large; a lichen is like a big puffy leg.

Lichen is an island that looks rotten.

Lichens look like aliens that just jumped out of their spaceship.

Lichens are amazing things, they move like seaweed in the ocean.

By Zena Greenberg

Lichen to the RescueLichen is like a powerful wizard,

Lichen is as glimmering as an angel,Lichen is like an endless tree,Lichen is as bionic as a hero,

Lichen is like an un-brushed tooth,Lichen is as magical as Still Life,

Lichen is like a dancing storybook.By Eliza Evans

The Green LichenGreen lichen is like a fluffy pillow that tickles you

Green lichen is a pattern of old nature Green lichen is the flame of angles

Green lichen is the light of nice feathersGreen lichen is a flying carpetGreen lichen is a fearless night

Green lichen looks like a wavy sea full of peas.By Alexandra McGowan

The Beautiful LichenIt looks like a twisting circle

It sounds like a Tui’s call

It feels like a soggy tennis ball

It tastes like forest leaves

It smells like an absurd little rat.

By Elaina Neal

Squidgy LichenLichen is like a big turquoise spikey ball

Lichens texture is like a squished lime

Lichen is like a scorpion’s skeleton

Lichen is stuck together feathers

Lichen is like gooey wood

Lichen looks like a rotten apple.

By Oisin Cummings

Bellow YellowBellow is my name

I’m yellow Instead of grey

People say I’m in the hall of fame.I’m not rocky but

I can’t moveI watch people play hockey

Ho, heySometimes I’m as red as a poppy

But now I’m just yellow‘cos Bellow is my name.By Celeste Waterman

The Lichens LifeLichens are made of algae and fungus

In groups their enormousCreepy lichens

Heaps on the groundEvery one of them is small

No one knows how many there are!So look for them, enormous or miniature.

By Joshua Swaine

Colour in LaceLooks like slimy goo

Incredible

Colour in lace is within you

Hyper-thermal ball

Energy, full spreading around

Nature needs you.

By Sophie Morris

Floating LichenLichen feels like water in a far, away island

Lichen smells as beautiful as honey from the beehive

Lichen looks like a big flower in the garden

Lichen feels like coral in the water

Lichen moves like seaweed in the water.

By Taesoo Kim

Lichen PowerLichen is a bright diamond

Lichen is a circle with lumpsLichen is yellow and green sticky gum

Lichen is like a boogieLichen tastes like yucky jelly

Lichen is a powerful blob of sugar.By Ella Kennedy

The Restful LichenThe lichen sleepily grows by the years

Slowly fungus and algae work together in harmonyColourfully it gleams on crystal blue water

It flows beautifully in the breezeThe lichen lazily shuts down in a drought or flood

It rests peacefully in the fresh air.By Antony Hughes

Pretty ShellLichen is like an interesting flower

Lichen is like a soft pillowLichen is cool like a world of happiness

Lichen smells like fresh airLichen is pretty like a shell

Lichen is a paua.By Brooklyn Jimenez

Lichen SpikesLichens have terrifying spikes

Inside it lives algae and fungus

Close, outside the lichen are spikes

Hideous lichens look funny

Exciting, lichens are amazing

Never touch lichen because they are squishy.

By Chun Kit Thompson

Bunnies FurLichens are like a green vuvuzela with no hole

Lichen looks like a sponge

Lichens are a meteor of gold

Lichen looks like a pohutukawa tree

Lichen looks like a grizzly bears claw

Lichen feels like bunnies fur.

By Caesar Sarafroz

Soft Lichen Lichen looks like green paper with polka dots inside

Lichen tastes like dry salty water

Lichen sounds like the wind blowing on your face

Lichen feels like soft moss

Lichen smells like fresh air.

By Felix Caylor

Dirty JellyLichen is like fuzzy lime gold

Lichen is like dirty jellyLichen is like an old man’s beard

Lichen is as light as a piece of stringLichen feels like sand in your handLichen is lime jelly in dirty swamps

Lichen can live for over 100 years after men, how cool is that!By Jordan Kelland

Gooey FlowerLichens are a gooey flower

Lichens are a great feeling for all of usLichens are shaped like a cool egg

Lichen is a flower that is on my fenceLichens make me shaky.

By Audrey Llu

Lichen VuvuzelaLichens look like a mini vuvuzelaSome lichens are as red as a rose

Some lichens look like pastaSome of them look like a rotten eggSome look like an old man’s beard

Lichens look like small pieces of petalsLichens are as bright as poppies

Lichens look like a birds nest.By Hansana Peiris

Lichen a Winter TreatIt looks like a green sea monster but on land,

It smells like a green leopard swan toad in a crocodile’s mouth

It looks like a tremendous, stupendous cloud of wool

Tastes like a revolting pile of vomit mixed with Poison

Feels like the mild touch of winters death

Sounds like silent snow queens.

By Jasleen Bains

Humungous LichenLichen shut down and live for thousands of years

Inside them there is algae and fungus

Climates like metal and sea

Humungous they are!

Every lichen is different in shape and size

Never hurts anyone.

By Martyn Gascoigne.

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