Ballast Poems - Poems about Ballast

...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 6: EVOLUTION Singularity by Michael R. Burch Are scientists confounded like the ostrich? Heads buried in the sand, they shout, *Preposterous!* This universe, so magical, ......Read the rest...

...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 4: BIRTH/EVOLUTION Simultaneous Flight by Michael R. Burch *The number of possible connections [brain] cells can make exceeds the number of particles in the universe. — Ger......Read the rest...

... Time and tide again waits for no man tempest-tossed upon life’s billow The hull or the dinghy Serves as a fortress Though steady on its keel Knocked his wits and sense As he vacillates betwee......Read the rest...

...The ballast of our Thursday afternoon in the countryside lays distilled in your face. Yawning like a cow in pasture eating sweet grass your words flatten the moment. Having no capacity of knowing......Read the rest...

...The crux of a theory is in what it rules out Clearing the runways narrowing doubt With the ballast tossed over all clouds disappear Obstacles moved … solutions are near (Dreamsleep......Read the rest...

...Mine gerund farming, tilling, and harvesting illogical weltanschauung Twas accursed destiny since birth (maybe coded in deoxyribonucleic acid since time immemorial) alas and alack nascent em......Read the rest...

...How empty can an inbox possibly be? Not unlike a door..... practically off at hinges The paint is definitely peeling More than one shutter has fallen astray. One piece at a time Have you ev......Read the rest...

...In the Med aboard the Byrd, Captain spoke and gave the word. Rough course ahead, but still on track. If not on duty, then hit your rack. For Rob and I, we had to know. So, topside bound to s......Read the rest...

...Tempting to offer an anthropological history class and call it Earth History, beginning with our current messy riled up LeftBrain emergently dominating our fracturing Anthropocene. While tru......Read the rest...

...Any railroad man will tell you truly, If you ballast the ties with river stone, Your rolling stock is most sure to de-rail. All your back-breaking labor laying track Will have earned you no furth......Read the rest...

..."A gift is different from something you buy, possessed of meaning outside its material boundaries. You never dishonor the gift." Robin Wall Kimmerer A social gift, a gift for compassionate verbal......Read the rest...

...Everything is simple in it's own way Taken from a point of view man is sure to say And praying for the other souls that price is sure to pay When learning from the other souls is kept on hol......Read the rest...

...That old wooden box that we nailed to a plank The pram in the ditch that required a good yank All that we needed was front and back wheels We wouldn’t need brakes for we had rubber heels The fr......Read the rest...

...` It was just another desk propped against a cardboard wall, nothing fancy or dreamlike and on a notepad from someone’s kitchen drawer were scrawled words, little phrases in permanent ink,......Read the rest...

...LONELY AS A CLOUD IN APRIL I knew Great Aunt Lucy’s April outing to celebrate My failed exams would be a series of disasters, A slow motion flying April-fool joke, with my problems as b......Read the rest...