A story of fungi

Nature has this sort of way

Of reconstructing that which dies

A favored way of showing this

Is the really quite cool way

That fungi, like mushrooms and the like

Can tear apart

And reconstruct

Almost any and every thing

And something even more neat

Is that fungi happen to be

Really a lot older than

It may first seem

As some fungi alive today

Were budding way back in the time

That civilizations were barely a thing!

So please show mushrooms some respect

As they’re super duper old as heck

And they can still recycle things

Just fine, so I do believe

You can put your refuse

In the right bin.

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my piece is titled 'a story of Fungi', and it is a poem. I was inspired when I saw a video that explained how old some fungi are. The message I was trying to convey was that fungi are actually pretty cool, and are really good at recycling. I’m mostly proud of the general ‘beat’ I was able to keep with the poem, as well as the occasional rhyme I snuck in, as those aren’t things I’m familiar with doing. I didn’t use any particular poetic devices, so I can’t really say how they might’ve helped with the poem itself.