What comes to mind when you hear the term Morning Glory?

AnnieA said:
For @jerry old :) What a compliment! Thank you much!

Copied and pasted from Do any of you write poetry thread.


Mourning Glories

Southern lawns
Manicured
Meticulous
Monotonous
I see
bright blossoms and magnolia trees
swathed in carpets of flawless green.
But one lone Morning Glory
blooms
where weeds and asphalt and drainpipe meet.
Beauty outside bounds of pristine green.

Southern lives
Manicured
Meticulous
Monotonous
I see
sculptured smiles and soft syllables
swimming in hymns of pious praise.
Manicured faith.

Oh, God
Open my heart.
Grace me to be one of your Mourning Glories
blooming
where hurt and sorrow and loneliness meet.
Beauty outside bounds of pristine green.

published 1991

Story behind this. Saw the morning glory blooming as described while out walking shortly before I left a rigid Calvinist denomination to worship in an inner city, diverse, love-filled church with a lot of other hurting people. Decided I'd erred on the side of legalistic theological 'law' and made a conscious decision to 'err' on the side of love. Ashamed to say I have to dig deep sometimes to get back to the wonderful lessons I learned there, but they are still in my heart.
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AnnieA, what a beautiful and inspiring poem! I particularly liked "Oh, God, Open my heart, Grace me to be one of your Mourning Glories.." I am just curious though, you spelling of morning glory as mourning glory. Was that intentional? Thanks! :)
 

palides2021 said:
AnnieA, what a beautiful and inspiring poem! I particularly liked "Oh, God, Open my heart, Grace me to be one of your Mourning Glories.." I am just curious though, you spelling of morning glory as mourning glory. Was that intentional? Thanks! :)
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Thank you so much! Yes, thought 'mourning' conveyed the intent of living authentically with personal pain as well as others' hurt.
 

Vancouver. When I was a kid, every day, I walked past a house with a fence that had white morning glory flowers covering it. I haven't come across the flower anywhere else I've lived .. and I've lived in numerous locales. Perhaps they went out of popularity?
 
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palides2021 said:
AnnieA, what a beautiful and inspiring poem! I particularly liked "Oh, God, Open my heart, Grace me to be one of your Mourning Glories.." I am just curious though, you spelling of morning glory as mourning glory. Was that intentional? Thanks!
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palides 2021
Had you grown up in the South
Where hypocrisy is daily fare
Where judgement lies *past the fence
and the fine trimmed lawns.


Where Manicure behavior
stifles the true
nothing can grow here
nor bloom

Yet, we can bloom
dare we change,



Yes, yes, we do love the South, don't we? Hypocrites bloom here-seldom seen as it's always been.
We mourn over our lives, fearing to change, where is our courage, where lies the true of all things.
Stumbling, sliding, we make our way

(* Harry Chapin's line)
 
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Bretrick said:
Cloud Formations?
The Morning Glory Cloud is a meteroloical phenomenon consisting of a low-level atmospheric solitary wave and associated cloud, occasionally observed in different locations around the world.
The southern part of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Northern Australia is the only known location where it can be predicted and observed regularly due to the configuration of land and sea in the area.
A Morning Glory cloud is a roll cloud, that can be up to 1,000 km (620 mi) long, 1 to 2 km (0.62 to 1.24 mi) high, often only 100 to 200 metres (330 to 660 ft) above the ground.
The cloud often travels at the rate of 10 to 20 metres per second. Sometimes there is only one cloud, sometimes there are up to ten consecutive roll clouds.
The Morning Glory cloud is not clearly understood because its rarity means it has little significance in terms of rainfall or climate.
Regardless of the complexity behind the nature of this atmospheric phenomenon, some conclusions have been made about its causes.
One of the main causes of most Morning Glory occurrences is the wind circulations associated with sea breezes that develop over the peninsula and the gulf.
On the large scale, Morning Glories are usually associated with Frontal systems crossing central Australia and high pressure in northern Australia. Locals have noted that the Morning Glory is likely to occur when the humidity in the area is high, which provides moisture for the cloud to form, and when strong sea breezes have blown the preceding day.
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Sadly I have never seen these live, although I have spotted some that are similar near Lake Erie on the Ohio USA border. If they move in a rolling pattern, like a pencil rolling off a table, I heard them referred to as cigar rollers. I'd really like to see them live!
 
Before i came into thread and read OP--several memories/images were triggered by the phrase:

1) The flowering vine. When we moved from Wyoming 10 yrs ago, i had looked at our property in February when everything in winter mode. i feared losing the lovely smaller than commercially sold wild Morning Glories we had all over our yard there. But come spring---there they were.

2) Because i worked in banks much of my working life (both thru temp agencies and as a 'permanent' employee) the Bank Robbery--A specific type that happens just before or right at opening time. The criminals are often out very rapidly, sometimes before customers start to come in.

3) The 1933 movie with Katherine Hepburn

4) this Cloud Formation which i've never seen in person, only in photos...tho i have seen some interesting clouds in my time.

There are probably other things that get the label but those are what hit as this page loaded.
 
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jerry old said:
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palides 2021
Had you grown up in the South
Where hypocrisy is daily fare
Where judgement lies *past the fence
and the fine trimmed lawns.


Where Manicure behavior
stifles the true
nothing can grow here
nor bloom

Yet, we can bloom
dare we change,



Yes, yes, we do love the South, don't we? Hypocrites bloom here-seldom seen as it's always been.
We mourn over our lives, fearing to change, where is our courage, where lies the true of all things.
Stumbling, sliding, we make our way

(* Harry Chapin's line)
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Bump!!!!!
 
Paco Dennis said:
I did ask Google

The seeds of many species of morning glory contain a naturally occurring tryptamine, lysergic acid amide (LSA), which is chemically similar to LSD and has similar effects. Seeds are used for their strong psychedelic or hallucinogenic mental effects. :eek:
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Yep. I think it's only one variety, maybe it's "Heavenly Blue"?
 

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