Cogumelos

"Overnight, very

Whitely, discreetly,

Very quietly

Our toes, our noses

Take hold on the loam,

Acquire the air.

Nobody sees us,

Stop us, betrays us;

The small grains make room.

Soft fists insist on

Heaving the needles,

The leafy bedding,

Even the paving.

Our hammers, our rams,

Eaeless and eyeless,

Perfectly voiceless,

Widen the crannies,

Shoulder throught holes. We

Diet on water,

on crumbs of shadow,

Bland-mannered, asking

Little or nothing.

So many of us!

So many of us!

We are shelves, we are

Tables, we are meek,

We are edible,

Nudgers and shovers

In spite of ourselves.

Our kind multiplies:

We shall by morning

Inherit the earth.

Our foot's in the door."

(Mushrooms, de Sylvia Plath)

Depois de ouvirmos a leitura do poema de Sylvia Plath, 

de nos encantarmos com a sua magia e falarmos um bocadinho sobre o que ele nos diz, 

desenhámos os nossos cogumelos, aprendemos um bocadinho sobre o seu ciclo de vida, a sua forma, tipologia, nomes (tão engraçados, alguns!), cuidados a ter...

"Mushroom Education Packet", em: http://www.americanmushroom.org/workbook.pdf

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