Whose smile and behavior are more devilish than Tom Cruise’s?
Naturally cast to play Maverick, daringly bending the rules.
Putting himself and his bestie Goose in danger, over and over.
They both are enjoying US Navy’s elite fighter weapons school.
Maverick is conceited, cocky, and super believably over-confident
As is Iceman, his nemesis, and major competitor, played by Val Kilmer.
The two together carry this movie to an exciting fruition.
Maverick's flirtation with Charlie, astrophysics instructor adds pizazz.
I do not think you will be bored if you rent this one dated 1986.
Thirty-seven years later, it still makes me smile.
Of course Goose’s death will always be sad, even now.
Mystic Physics
By Mark D. Stucky
When God said, “Let there be,”
ALL erupted from singularity.
The event horizon couldn’t bind Him.
Space and time required Him.
The Creator cued the quarks
and cast quasars across the sky.
The Programmer wrote the code,
and the cosmos did compile.
The Quantum Mechanic is not yet done.
He directs the dance of every atom,
counts each photon and knows their sum,
and smiles in every rainbow’s spectrum.
And smile, indeed, He would,
for He beholds that it is good.
(This humorous reworking of Genesis 1 from the perspective of astrophysics was first published in Famous Poets of the Heartland: A Treasury of Beloved Family Poems, ed. Lavender Aurora (Talent: Famous Poets Press, 2009) 36. For a more serious reworking of Genesis 1 from the perspective of quantum physics, see my poem “Quantum Theology.” See also my other "quantum" poems.)
(Image by geralt on Pixabay.com.)
Black lives matter
and dark matter
hides in black holes.
While here on Earth
the universe ain’t
unfolding as it
should.
Tug a bit on earthly muck, shakes us all;
Hell's murkiness makes the eternal fall.
Pick up pure mud, feel its wonder and awe.
Our cosmos burns but organics are rare;
though carbon abounds, exists everywhere.
Light springs into life, if water is there!
Grab damp dark soil, same stuff in a flower.
Musing trite thoughts drains our mental power,
try to wake before your faint final hour.
Some sculpt Buddha's fingers touching the earth,
always connecting to soil has true worth.
From the moist muck comes all life and rebirth.
Our world will rock us asleep and awake;
ups and downs, storms and quakes, for goodness sake.
Accepting all flaws, what will we forsake?
Monorhyme in tercets 15 lines 114 words
Inspired by John Milton's Paradise Lost,
Astrophysics and Buddhist philosophy
The moon was barely out for such a dark night
It hardly seen me under the stars in the middle of existence,
The moon barely seen me breathe as I'm trying to live
Rarely the moon is so occurring other than to astrophysics
Merely this is a coincidence as I look up at the moon still unnoticed by it
Solely it sees me and my existence
Simply it has to notice me
Clearly, it catches a glimpse of me as I peek back
I wait patiently for the moon to see me as the moon was barely out
Potent message
hidden within the Spherical Photon —
Universal data transmitter
Offspring Alpha Wave,
whom was begat by Omega Oscillation
Beamed to an unknown distant point
in space-time
Gravitational curvature eternity echoes
passed thru infinity prime
Elevated dimension of double blessing:
Omnipresence overseen by
Invisible Express Image Divine
Nothing made into something,
astrophysics inorganic
turned to
organic quantum mechanics —
Illumination kinetic motion birthed
from Dark void inert static
Potent message
revealed inside perpendicular bent carbons —
data transmission receivers
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