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Thomas Edison
Tom sat there eating the last of his bread,
wondering if the next day he'd get fed,
felt like a dumb cluck,
down on his luck,
till a light...

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Categories: edison, history, humor, science,
Form: Limerick



Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison
was known to be reticent
but he decided to make the world bright
so he told them about his kitchen light

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Categories: edison, humor,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
diverged a lesson
It was awesomely bright
called  incandescent  light...

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© Jt Nyx  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: edison, growth, inspiration,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Abc World's Famous Scientists In History
A  is for Anton van Leeuwenhoek- in his simple  microscope made him well-known,
B is for Benjamin Franklin who invented  the electricity ...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: edison, cancer, inspirational, me,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Inspiration Taps Softly
Sometimes late at night as we succumb to sleep
We greet creative thoughts beyond those of counting sheep

It’s said Thomas Edison held coins in his hands
That...

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Categories: edison, on writing and wordslonging,
Form: Couplet



Medicine
Sometimes I just go crazy
Trying to give my kid his medicine
You have to be some kind of genius
You know, like Thomas Edison?

And I've tried almost...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: edison, funny
Form: Rhyme
Hope
   HOPE 
             
"Hope",a little birdie you,
Vanishes mostly in the blue

Stop...

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Categories: edison, hope, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
The Genius
Nikola Tesla came to America in the 1880's to work with Thomas Edison,
a lot of his brilliant ideas getting patented by others who had a...

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Categories: edison, betrayal, blessing, for him,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Light Particle
Light, defined as electromagnet,
radiation; photon particles
Natural visible light: with intensity, and frequency
Light wavelength spectrum / polarization propagation

People pleasure and preen at the beach with sunny...

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Categories: edison, fire, life, light, nature,
Form: Free verse
Have No Fear
An idea wrapped up in a dream, 
it will never work, don't even try. 
Another wacky out there scheme, 
better to let it lay and...

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Categories: edison, faith, fear, hope, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eureka
Eureka - a love song Tanka series
~ art by Edward Burne-Jones ~

It's a fair question:
as you smile that smile, you ask
how much I love you…
"You...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: edison, love,
Form: Tanka
Electricity Acrostic
ELECTRICITY

Edison has spoiled us past the point of no return
Lights around the world all cause the city life to burn
Every child becomes addicted to computer...

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Categories: edison, life,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Chair {personification} In Couplet Form
I sit at the end of your final stroll
Setting you free is my only goal

At the end of your life so tired and beat
I quietly...

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Categories: edison, death, history
Form: Personification
An Uppercut I Remember
Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already...

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Categories: edison, father son,
Form: Blank verse
Entrepreneur
In a sense everything is a seed of it's successor
The universe is change, life is judgement
Those aren't my words, they're a famous author
The rest of...

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Categories: edison, books, change, culture, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme

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