Paleobotany

Borne from the scales of old As forests turned to coal Lost to the annals of history When the mountains rose And forests turned to coal Wings of the Meganeura Translucent to sun rays Floating upon the corpsefumes Of Lepidodendron Higher and higher Paleozonic Odonata rising Leaf scars stretched and torn Prjections through the periderm Recurring pattern of abscission Creating reptilian skin Disintegrating as climate changed Carbonizing over millennia Now enabling the megafauna By supеroxegenating the air Bornе from the scales of old As forests turned to coal Lost to the annals of history

Submitted by Finntroll — Feb 11, 2026

Carnivorous progenitor The only of its kind A prisoner in fossilized resin Wings are forever frozen in time Sarraceniaceae Archaemphora Miniscule amidst the Titans of the era Anthocyanin temptation Beckoned to the peristome Drowning in pools of digestive nectar Cretaceous amphora Golden flourescence in your veins With angiosperms arising Where feathers theropods walked Archaemphora longicervia Thrived amidst volcanic rock Sarraceniaceae In a herculean world Inconspicious in soil lacustrine Ancient Archaemphora A living vace of emerald green Evolved to be carnivorous To suppliment her nutrients For the soil she was living in Contained insufficient nitrogen Prehistoric amphora Flils the air with honey-sweetened promises Deadly amphora Earliest one to be carnivorous

Submitted by Finntroll — Feb 11, 2026

Fossilized pollen holds the key Ancient stellar mystery Cataclysmic eonic blaze Mass destruction will create

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 15, 2026

In a time before time Sigillaria reached towards the sky At the top, a fork, like arms outstretched Climbing in a rush before Pangaea coalesced From Devonian To the Permian Marked by amniotic rise Arborescent in form Yet woodless; bearing spores Growing tall on spirals of diamond scales Her reach was vast and wide Surrounded on all sides by Panthalassic tides Ancestral clade of lycophytes Sister to the isoetes Emeshian traps of rock Evident in layers of basalt Leaves of grass dot the wastes A vast desert in their wake Mantle plume eruptions Sigillaria Capitanian extinction Supercontinental cohesion Growing tall to find life-giving light Her reach was vast and wide Until the day she died A desert left behind Carboniferous rainforest collapse Emeshian traps of rock Evident in layers of basalt Leaves of grass dot the wastes A vast desert in their wake

Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 11, 2026

Dark treacle of death Within an amber constraint Asterid from aeons past Cenozoic prisoner Caught in resin long ago Secreted from trees in the Tertiary Petals of white on a body of vines Releasing an acrid mass Advancing doom Inhibiting Acetylcholine Muscles lulled to paralysis As nerve impulses fail Muscular systems remit Reaching the core; a loss of breath Life ebbs into nothingness Ancient ancestor of everything that flowers Should vertebratеs imbibe, the spine will gеnuflect Muscular contractions overwhelm the body Convulsions Asphyxiation The end Dark treacle of death Within an amber constraint Asterid from aeons past

Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 11, 2026

A living fossil Extinct for two million years Once thriving in Gondwana Cretaceous megacontinent In austral lands remote A vestige of ancient times Wollemia of Auraucaria Along sandstone slopes Lived in secercy Centries old coniferous evergreen Now genetically singular From a root system unique Within gorges steeped in mystery Relict population emerges A living fossil Extinct for two million years Once thriving in Gondwana Cretaceous megacontinent Taxon of Lazarus Risen again Winged seeds float on thе air From cones turned to dust

Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 11, 2026

By the order of Zamia it reigned Sealed away in the Eocene Its thrall the Pharaxonotha Feeding on tropical seed In now icy arctic forests Monstrous cycad towering Ruling for a thousand years O, monarch of the Paleocene Ruling for a thousand years Dioecious evergreen Spirally arranged leaves Spring from cataphyll Metasporophyllic apices overlap Close to the earth Roots grow as coral Nitrogen harvesting cyanobactaria Populate the rhizomes With arbuscular mycorrhiza Operating in harmony O, monarch of the Paleocene Ruling for a thousand years Spars spring from the rhachis in trichome hairs Antheridal sacs burst abaxially Spreading pollen in the air Carried to archedonia Imbued in teh ovum Cryptocotylar germination

Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 11, 2026