Best Chloride Poems
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it
be salted? It is henceforth cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Matthew
5:13 KJV
In ancient history, salt was sought and bartered. In some places it was carried by
camels across scorching deserts such as in West Africa where eager merchants
traded it to waiting customers. Salt was used for money in some places, thus giving
us the word salary.
Today salt is used for many purposes, stocked in grocery stores, and is available on
virtually every table.
We use it medicinally, and blocks of salt satisfy cattle’s craving. Salt in water raises
the boiling point, yet salt melts ice. Put salt on meat and it preserves it. Leave salt
off the table and your appetite leaves with it. But too much salt is harmful. It makes
your feet and legs swell and too much is hard on the heart.
Examine one grain of salt under a microscope and note its cube shape. Its sides
are made of two elements, sodium and chlorine. These combine to form sodium
chloride – salt.
Imagine soldiers in a tug of war. An ion of chlorine glares from one corner at a
sodium ion guarding the opposite side. As crystallization occurs the chlorine wins in
the stare-down. Sodium surrenders its single valence electron to chlorine and
together they become sodium chloride. Consider it in verse:
Salty Sentinels
Sodium ions stable,
assembled on the table,
salivating palates crave.
Chlorine ions tiny,
mustering soldiers briny,
guarding corners brave.
Sodium chlorine making,
crystal shakers shaking
cubes so salty white.
Ever fighting blandness;
vectors adding grandness,
enhance the appetite!
There is no wonder Jesus used salt as an example to the disciples in his Sermon on
the Mount. He exhorts Christians to have salt in themselves and have peace with
one another. See Mark 9:50
Categories:
chloride, nature
Form:
Narrative
Finding Abigail
“Abigail! ~Abigail!...where are you, my love?
I can’t see you, nor smell you, let alone touch you…”
A nebulous cloud encroaches the corridors of mind,
Where a fallacious hope seeks its refuge in silence.
“Abigail! Is that you? I thought I heard someone talking…”
Disembodied voices revel throughout the empty voids,
Existence in the grand abyss impenetrable from both sides.
“Abigail, I know you care about me…I can’t see you,
but I hear you…I remember the time we met my sweet,
the sky and air stood still until we embraced…
then came the fireworks…we must still be there, for all I see
is smoke my dearest…Abigail! come back my love,
I’ve lost you in the smog!”
Illusions begging resolutions, the marginal mind wanders,
Taking with it memories of what used to be,
but now has been abandoned.
“Abigail my love…I’m afraid…can you hold my hand my sweet?
this is no good, I can’t reach you…where are you…Abigail!?”
The subject is going into Cardiac arrest… convulsions are increasing!...
We are losing him! Quickly flush with at least 20ml of 0.9% sodium chloride…
“Abigail my dearest…I can see you…so beautiful you are…come to me
My love…come closer...let us start anew.”
Nurse, prepare him for surgery…there is a good chance we may save him…”yes Doctor.”
“Abigail! Abigail! ...I’m losing you, my love…come back, come bac, com…”
He’ll be OK now…we saved him, but sadly he will still be enslaved by love…
Oct.04.2018
Brainstorm Poetry
Sponsored by: John Hamilton
Placed 2'nd [1'st of 8]
Categories:
chloride, devotion, heartbroken, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Part 1
Lithium, Sodium, Potassium
All from Periodic Table Group One
Their reactivity is maximum
And they affect the human condition
Rechargeable batteries use Lithium
As a component in their production
It tries to make mental health optimum
In treating the bipolar condition
Sodium is essential in nutrition
As sodium chloride salt in food for taste
Sodium compounds home products are common
Some are baking soda, soap and toothpaste
Healthy nutrition needs Potassium
A good source of it is the banana
It's used in fireworks which are awesome
And also used in plant fertilizer
Part 2
I can still remember quite vividly
Watching alkali elements' power
It was in a lab class in chemistry
Demonstrated by our class teacher
A piece of sodium placed on water
Began to hiss very furiously
It then sped up under its own power
And ran around as if it was crazy
Potassium was much more violent
It made an extremely loud crackling sound
Then suddenly up into flames it went
And scared the wits out of the class around
Categories:
chloride, class, education, firework, food,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
The world is ruled by Science,
This truth will be known by these lines;
By the law of gravity, we walk on ground,
The human ear can't hear ultrasound;
The science of spectacles is known all,
The plant cells are guarded by cell wall.
What can be a better example than the food we eat,
With a number of reactions the meal does greet.
Sodium is a reactive metal,
Poisonous chloride was used in battle;
But these elements form sodium chloride,
It's explanation is out of my mind.
The nuclear weapons were made by Science;
They are harmful to nature were explained by Science.
Now I can't get anymore lines,
On this already complex Science.
Categories:
chloride, student, technology,
Form:
Lyric
Before I die, a million tears will crystallize.
Solid as sodium chloride, holding my breath I visualize.
Going through my journey, I am thankful for the life before me.
Appreciation and recognition I rise in value and price, awareness of my life purpose.
It was all destine, and predetermine.
Before I die, I will realize all of my self-pride.
I will look forward to the future, whatever it shall be I will succeed.
I will have the strength when I begin to feel weak, and I will stand when my knees buckle to the ground before me.
I will learn to rise when I fall.
As long as I have breath in me, I know it will not be for long.
I will learn to love myself, and be true to myself.
Listen to my inner voice because it will never stir me wrong.
Before I die, I will vocalize my pain inside.
Learn to forgive as I begin to live again.
To be self-sufficient and embrace, independents particularly in patience therefore without any complaining.
Before I die, I will have endurance for my world of descendants.
I will learn to love a million ways, as I let my spirit gravitate.
Before I die, I will lay awake as my heart pulsates.
As my life flashes before my eyes, my body permanently starts to indefinitely, paralyze.
Before I die, my eyes again crystallized.
Categories:
chloride, inspirational, uplifting, life, life,
Form:
Light Verse
You've always been thinking,
In the soil you've been digging,
Groundwater which is disgusting,
forcing you to be demanding,
For tasteful water in drinking.
A mixture of sodium chloride,
A body in which you’ll abide,
A cage that won’t ever divide,
The horizon that will guide,
To where you can live alongside.
The attractor of amazements,
The grappler of moments,
The magnetizes of compliments,
The tummy of all improvements,
And the house of achievements.
Categories:
chloride, ocean,
Form:
Epic
When lyrics and music are combined they take on a whole new life.
When chlorine and sodium assimilate they make salt.
Separately they are limited, combined they are significant.
Together we can accomplish much, divided we dither.
Salty Sentinels
By James E. Tate
Sodium ions stable, assembled on the table,
Salivating palates crave.
Chlorine ions tiny, mustering soldiers briny,
Guarding corners brave.
Sodium Chloride making, crystal shakers shaking
Cubes of salty white.
Ever fighting blandness, vectors adding grandness,
To enhance the appetite.
You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness,
how can it be made salty again” It is no longer good for anything,
except to be thrown out and trampled by men. Matthew 5:13
Categories:
chloride, science,
Form:
Couplet
Arsenic
Bisphenol-A
Cresol
Defoliants
Ethanol
Formaldehyde
Government collusion
Herbicides
Insecticides
Junk food
Killing us all
Lead
Mercury
Naphthalene
Oil
Pesticides
Quiet destruction
Rodenticides
Styrene butadine
Trichlorothylene
U.S. produced 15 trillion lbs. of chemicals in 2007
Vinyl chloride
Water pollution
Xylene
You might want to read ***
Zero tolerance
*** "Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children"
by Philip & Alice Shabecoff
Categories:
chloride, education
Form:
ABC
Laying out
the body
and
them
they have released
polite glances
promising touches
and words for lean against
neither polyvinyl chloride windows
couldn't prevent
stupidity
from entrance
you are forcing your exhausted tears
on
kneeling over the cheeks
screenplays remain consistent
only the pawns alternate
it is noon...
... even Satan needs God to survive
Categories:
chloride, absence, betrayal, christian, hurt,
Form:
Free verse
tastebuds seek out this mineral nice,
essence of being and all that is wise,
it pervades the universe but unseen,
salt in us is salt from men who have been.
for generations it has looped around,
from oceans to rain then on to the ground*,
from tiniest plankton to creatures large,
for existence salt has been incharge.
a simple compound of elements two,
a sodium with chloride hold life’s clue,
in water ionise to disappear,
despite their presence solution looks clear!
from single cells from oceanic floor,
to evolution’s more complex galore,
crystals of this compound have stayed alive,
seeping through the ages in life’s cosmic dive.
so it is here, there, it is everywhere,
it is wealth unknowingly that we share,
crystals of salt that were in Christ Jesus,
have gone through several times amongst us!
when tear drops taste of oceanic salt,
they remind of origins from the start,
inscribed deep within each genetic code,
share of salt for your bodily abode.
a warning against greed it does impart,
if stored too much it’s no good for the heart,
body soon suffers the signs of excess,
thirst urges water for diuresis.
so sublime in our nature is this salt,
without it all life will come to a halt,
that tiny white grain we hold in our hand,
is the language of life on this land!
2nd placement
written 27/02/2021
Salt poetry competetion
Anthony Biaanco sponsored
*while water circulates from oceans through rain and rivers,
the rain water being slightly acid erodes land rocks and contributes to the bulk of the salt in the ocean!
10 syllables each line
8 quatrains with aabb, ccdd ... rhyme sequence.
perfect and imperfect rhyme.
Categories:
chloride, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
The rain fell and the frost came.
Pavements became sheets of glass
waiting for unsteady limbs,
ready for their fall.
The back door opened,
shuffling feet made
there way down a glistening path,
an old key to this problem
held tight in the palm of a hand.
When...
Slip Bang Jolt!
Stars appeared
before dark.
Pain made his
presence
known.
Jack Frost
laughed loudly.
The old bag of salt
sat in the musky shed
looking almost tierd and worn.
It was time again for it
to see the light of day,
to once more do battle,
scratch and scrape that glass
beyond repair and dissolve
any hope of another ambush.
Jack Frost was
about to be
assaulted.
The element of surprise
was perhaps lost,
but the element of
Sodium Chloride
was about to
wage war and win.
Categories:
chloride, seasonsold, old,
Form:
Light Verse
This song is for my father,
The biological fallible author,
working to clear a path.
In this maze of a world,
filled with isms and societal twirls
You warned me of the aftermath after the math.
The few times you visited no matter the weather,
Eating vinegar & salt potato chips together,
Before you continued your odyssey.
The simplicity of our relationship,
Based on sodium chloride fermented chips,
Will always be the base of my modesty.
Categories:
chloride, america, bereavement, birth, father,
Form:
Free verse
kind of straight forward is always crooked.
Empty water bottles with painted cumulus
fluffy clouds on the wrapper.
wandering aimless and empty,
once filled with chloride redemption.
you know you can buy them two for a dollar.
just like the old hebrew corndogs sold
down the street at the seven eleven.
better get in line and throw in a six
pack of olympia dry.
just remember sometimes crooked is never straight.
driving with one hand on the wheel the other
searching along the floorboard.
the clank of clutter when the bottles pile up.
Categories:
chloride, allegory,
Form:
Blank verse
Preservation quality
such is the essence of my functionality
along endowed saltiness’ purity
especially bestowed by the Creator Almighty.
Sodium chloride is my scientific identity
in human body, I’m an essential entity
helping maintain health’s activity
ensuring muscle and nerve integrity.
Flavor-enhancement magnifies my beauty
surely food-processing pursuits regard me as necessity
toward grand color and good texture intensity
aside from my nutrient-provision capacity.
Indeed I’m a valuable commodity
and I thank God for this significant opportunity…
even the Bible mentions my salt-vitality*
for mankind to consider, surviving against futility.
Mark 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
March 8, 2021
Personification in monorhyme
5th place, "SALT" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Anthony Biaanco; judged on 3/10/2021.
Categories:
chloride, appreciation, blessing, character, christian,
Form:
Monorhyme
Kabir and Shivam – best friends tied
To another as a fly to honey when spied.
Gems of the world - all boys my pride
Are happy and make so when tried;
Jaimin and Aayush with all stride
Ahead to mark Bhavya deride.
Fenil and Jainam are charms and pride -
Intelligently innocent, and Jayesh’s guide.
Guide for me and class in our collide.
Aryan and Manan are silent asteroid
Who burst with Mahir and Nirav wide.
Priyam and Shiv are innocently flied
In hostel during tuitions and are allied
With Kabir who beside Shashant denied
To be a part of tuition, but with Shivam tried
To save skin, as did Shyam, by moving aside
When problems for Varneshiyas don’t subside.
Siddh, Dipesh and Bhavin – solid chloride;
Burst in class or ground if any belied.
All twenty dear and precious stones I vied
As my sweet angels in life without snide;
I hope they’ll never forget my bestride
For them and come in my bad cyanide.
Categories:
chloride, children, friendship,
Form:
Monorhyme