This blogpost is a continuation of 'POETIC NON-SEQUITURS, as posted on this blog May 15, 2022 (first grouping), May 15, 2023 (second grouping , May 15, 2024 (third grouping), and May 15, 2025 (fourth grouping).
previous poetic posts
(first grouping): adolescence, almost Kosher, bush plane, charity auction, close quarters, cumulative songs.
(second grouping): demolition, dishwasher, doggy bag, epistaxis, ESL, far-flung family.
(third grouping): gavel (judge's), gifted children, greeting (Spanish), ground down, having the audacity.
(fourth grouping): hoggishly, horticultural, host and co-host, Hoyle,Edmond, latitude (changes), mallards at the swimming pool.
Prodigious
Professor and Madman
Rebuttal
Secret life of plants
Talking heads
Victims of bullying
Authors' Note: "The Secret Life of Plants", 1973, was a controversial piece of 'non-fiction' that recounted controversial experiments that pointed to plant sentience and emotion. The book became the basis for a documentary film, and even inspired a music album by a well-known popular singer/musician in 1979. Considerable criticism arose from its then-trendy pseudoscientific claims based on non-replicable reports. Subsequently, aspects of how plants, including vegetable species, sense and react to environmental changes, have undergone more intense and sober investigation by academic botanists.
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