Helianthus annuus, heliotropic slow son dance

Stream of photons bathe

top heavy fountainhead of sunflower.

 

Analogous to Atlas

shrugging, hoisting, grappling...

with planet Earth, the heavyweight

discobolus buoyantly held aloft

upon robust stem

tracks the heavenly orientation

of said hypothetical nearest star.

 

This immense distance,

nonetheless still affects majestic seeded head

tracing weighty radial

circular motion in miniature, along the ground.

 

Imperturbable rotation evokes

invisibly linkedin plumbline

stretching approximately 92.96 million miles.

 

This number represents

average distance calculated

between solar body and oblate spheroid.

 

Greatest (more accurately farthest) interspace

separates sun and namesake

(scientifically identified inflorescence,

particularly called capitulum)

during late summer/ early autumn.

 

Said aphelion approximately

coincides with full blooming bouquet,

which quiet rioting,

snapchatting, twittering birds,

(who reddit in Daily Sun)

immediately golong orderly

pecking, kickstarting, buzzfeeding...

capital one fancy feast.

 

Nothing but mush shelled husk remains.

 

These gouged out hollowed insides

represent most successful plant

regarding said species.

 

Oft times newly planted seeds,

and/or transplanted shooted seedlings

(I bore witness),

and watched in horror

as tendered, nurtured, kindled...

vulnerable inchoate fragile tendrils

indiscriminately, gamely easily

plucked from ground zero.

 

Willy nilly free for all allows, enables,

and provides ample opportunity

to observe fair and equitable distribution gifted

courtesy cornucopia fulfilling the maws

of hungry diverse terrestrial mouths to feed.

 

Invariably predators harbor taste

for unsuspecting oblivious

indulgent gourmandizing aves,

and quick make short shrift

despatching captive bird done deal.

 

Such happens tubby caw of the wild,

cuz copacetic, holistic, organic,... paradigm

embraced by yours truly steeped

within ethos, whereby the mighty heft

wielded by Homo sapiens must not signal

green light for deadly pesticides

to exterminate delicate of world wide web.

 

Despite being one crazy and fungi,

I feel him mold dinned

to relish resultant morning glory

awash with beaming, strapping, waxing...

yellow petaled ray flowers offering me

an Uber spiritual lyft shining

upon countenance of

returning native son!