Atom Poems

Atom

O Quintessence!
That which makes us, shapes us,
Through the dirty day
From dust to dust –

Did they know, when they unleashed you, what they wrought?
Stellar eternity condensed in cataclysmic instant,
Iota wreaking death, and smaller blasphemy – 
Brief man stealing star-power against the night.

Did he know, when he died the little death, what he was doing?
Not you, for
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Categories: atom, creation, death, military, myth,
Form: Free verse

Atom Bomb

Only one word in English
170 definitions
how fragile
the human heart must be
to fracture and break
shudder and quake,tremble and ache
defined by a single word
whispered or shouted
given or rejected
love











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Categories: atom, allusion, angst, love, miss
Form: Free verse


A School

Powerful is the art of school
To enlighten the spirits of the nation
To move burdens a cross the valleys, plains, mountains...
A school is a concrete atom of change
That flourish from time to time to challenge
The atrocities of the nation.
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Categories: atom, allegory, analogy, appreciation, dedication,
Form: Free verse

The Atom Cries in Silence

Beneath the crust of Saturn's breath,
Where silence swells and swallows death,
A single proton-left alone-
Whispers truths to shards of bone.

They built a star inside a cage,
Lit it young, then cursed with age,
It pulsed in hearts, then burned them black,
And begged the cosmos: “Take it back.”

A child once dreamt of breaking light,
Of feeding dark with pure insight,
But
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Categories: atom, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Splitting the Unhappy Atom

You go to bed unhappy,
in a separate room I also am unhappy.
Neither of us know why.

We worry too much
about each other's unhappiness.

Maybe we should talk less,
unhappiness always starts as a word
in our heads.
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Categories: atom, poetry,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberAngles

If only angles could be calculated by degrees of truth,
Counted along perpendicularities measured by parallel reasons.

If only spheres were round,
Found amongst the globes hovering in the heavens we've named Space.

Circling nuclei like electrons to an atom, orbiting thoughtlessly around a point that never proved itself.

Heat and light suffice reason, it seems.

To be and hither thither,
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Categories: atom, america, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShape Shifting Soul

You might say that I'm just an atom,
But the universe, I extoll.
I view everything in creation
As one big shape shifting soul.

Even individual beings' bodies
Are really something more.
Microbial cells in flesh and bones
Outnumber human cells galore.
 
A body's cell confederacy disbands 
When fate says the time is right.
No longer guided by human hands,
Its atoms spread in flight.
 
Scientists show atoms
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Categories: atom, body, death, history, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Atom and Nucleus

Atom and Nucleus

Particles invisible to the naked eye;If there is, it's imaginary.
I realized that the atomic particles surrounding my throat were related to magic.
The sound in contact with each other;It was the breaking of pieces of ice.
I looked for the core in the earth's crust,but I couldn't find it.
Because it wasn't there,I thought about it
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Categories: atom, earth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRequiem For An Atom

Interior exploration
with its usual playlist,
all lined up
then some mass is hurled
out of nowhere and smashes
into me, and I see myself 
fly off into parts, becoming
little more than traces
of exotica smeared in light
across a dark space,
living but an instant 
before annihilation 
and nothingness,
remembered only within
the cold walls of an equation
and by whoever was there,
looking on,
measuring my
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Categories: atom, science,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAtom Vs Adam

Did God create the oceans dry
His forests without greenery
to declare?~ Obviously not!
As every overhead cloud bears
proud witness, and every raindrop 
can claim a rightful lush share: 

We are partners all, in nature; 

each for Mother's Pleasure made...

each with a starring role – but only
her man, using one finger of a hand
can turn countless plush gardens
into
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Categories: atom, bible, christian, conflict, death,
Form: Free verse

One Atom

So we sing our songs
And take our steps
As joints grow red and
Knuckles thick, thick, thick

We release threads of Grace
Now we understand
"All the world's a stage" and
Sing silence is golden, golden, golden

Memories like dust in the wind
We smile at raindrops on the line
Leaves floating away
Floating away, so faraway

We delight going to sleep
A silly, silly sleep
Contraction and
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Categories: atom, allegory, angel, beautiful, color,
Form: Carpe Diem

One and God-Particle

 Atom and Individual 
- who are you
Really, 
If one can go deep in mind, heart, Spirit?

Atom and ParamAtman
- a building without doors, windows
For you, the real you ( the I am)
Your Beloved is outside 
Trying to get to you 
- I Am within
Trying to meet my Beloved, our efforts
Will break down the walls without
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Categories: atom, 12th grade, animal, god,
Form: Didactic

Song and God As Singer - I Mean

I
If each of us is a song
We are not physical
If God sings us into life
We are resurrected beings -
Not physical either

II
You have believed when I talked 'wave'
And 'ocean'
It is the ocean that sings
Waves into existence, rides along
The entire ocean does the 'wave' thing -
Right?
So, too, God experiences through us:
Song, celestial vehicle, or waves
We merge into
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Categories: atom, creation, environment, science, senses,
Form: Didactic

Ripple Butterfly Effect and Galaxies

Monoku Series 20220105
I
Big Bang created nothing; just ripples in "dark dark matter" made stars and all

II
Nutrinos move too fast; slow dark matter is without nutrino, photon, atom.
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Categories: atom, 12th grade, appreciation, art,
Form: Monoku

Blank For Brains

The Hydrogen Bomb is heinous
Because it could crack Uranus
And that would be bad
Because we'd get mad
That God decided to brain us!
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Categories: atom, word play,
Form: Limerick

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