Transferred Energy
...Swimmers don't sink
until they lose ATP -
transferred energy,
warming the waters
that will soon encase them.
You are no different -
sucking in the energy
I continuously emit.
Someda...
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Categories:
atp, abuse,
Form: Free verse
What is Biochemistry?
...Biochemistry—the chemistry of life’s design,
Where molecules dance, interlink, and align,
A bridge between cells, atoms, and earth,
Defining each process, from death to birth.
From cells to tissu...
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Categories:
atp, literature, poems, poetry, science,
Form: Didactic
Life of A Cell
...I am a eukaryotic cell with various organelles,
I am present in various shapes of stellate, spherical and knob threads.
Nucleus is my brain,
Which has karyolymph and a nuclear membrane.
Closer to...
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Categories:
atp, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Mighty Mitochondrion
...The mighty mitochondrion,
A most amazing organelle,
An energetic proton pump,
The powerhouse within the cell.
These little guys can replicate,
Undergo fission when they’re large
And are creat...
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Categories:
atp, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Hankering For a Kiss
...Come dear beau
embrace in my shadow
beneath my leaves
for a kiss or two.
I am a mistletoe
a parasite,
that needs to hang
on a tree as host,
and moreso,
I need kisses
to excite and powerup!...
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Categories:
atp, environment, love, tree,
Form: Free verse
Lynn Margulis
...Lynn Margulis is perhaps most remembered as the wife of Carl Sagan
Expected to be wife, mother, companion and last of all - scientist
But Lynn Margulis, under Sagan’s basket, would not hide
Her l...
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Categories:
atp, science, woman, women,
Form: Verse
Aging As a Spiritual Practice
...Beautiful summer day. You know you're gonna die
that's why you know no joy.
Obsessed with self, there is no answer
unless religion, tv, stories, sports matter.
So what if nothing rhymes and I don...
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Categories:
atp, age, anger, death, joy,
Form: Verse
Breath Control
...Control of breathing is quite complex
And if you really check the specs
You find all kinds of balances and checks
Within the medulla, cells playing their role
The DRG, inspirational control
Us...
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Categories:
atp, science,
Form: Verse
Inside Out
...Inside Out
The mighty mitochondria make ATP,
Without which there’d be no you or no me.
From glucose, bonds break and energy flows,
Through various molecules, energy goes.
From foods that y...
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Categories:
atp, science,
Form: Verse
Needy People
...Four basic things that we all do need.
Our bodies crave them with actual greed.
The first is oxygen in the air
In just a few moments, quite the scare.
You need it to make ATP
And form water bu...
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Categories:
atp, science,
Form: Verse
Where Do We Come In
...Where do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what we saw d...
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Categories:
atp, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Gym Rat Rap
...Yo check it
I’m at the gym and I’m lifting weights
Getting more cut than Sharon Tate
Get big every day that’s my motto
My gym schedule is never staccato
Popping veins and rippling abs
I look...
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Categories:
atp, funny, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Birthday Dear
...happy birthday dear, though I know you think me *****
I just want to send you this greeting, even if its not the proper setting
i wish you all the best there is, and if i could i'd love to giv...
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Categories:
atp, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Same Time, Same Place...
...Same time
Same place
Different color
Of the face
Same K-12 system
Same university
Different college
Who gained
More knowledge?
Who excelled?
Who got more hell?
Same job
Same school
...
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Categories:
atp, caregiving, childhood, faith, life,
Form: Narrative
Unifying Theories of Chemistry
...Unifying Theories of Chemistry
Plants react in synthesis
Stimulations sunlight
Breathing the winds causes
Through fluid chains
Reproducing flowering responses
And systematically chemistrie...
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Categories:
atp, life, love, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse
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