Best Mitochondria Poems

I leave school when I was seven
 So I don’t have much education
 Always use my commonsense
 To help me in life’s situations
 
 But...

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Daily Poetry #59, March 28, 2017
Word: Mitochondria 

108 billion people, and still, life just plays on repeat,
It’s grown so dull that we don’t care who...

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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,...

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Illuminatus
I don't know how a prisoner fits in a cell
how the matrix of justice gives energy
to the inner thoughts using mitochondria
the dentist never seems to...

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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...

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You are the fuel of my lantern
The Moon of my sea
The reef of my ocean
The trout of my stream

You are the oasis of my desert...

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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 created on demand...

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The interviewer is water colored...green.
The artist, antiqued abstract.
He probes for her deepest sable secrets. 
She offers pale nothings from her musky attic retreat-

He nibbles away...

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All of a sudden I miss a step
And then you excuse me the lack of continuity 
He dragged me here, taking me by my hair...

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Do you believe in miracles
Do you want the angels to land on your eyelids
Does it feel like a frosty breath is merely a conglomeration 
And...

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the greenland shark can be seen around greenland
and the brain begins to slow at 24

my brain fully developed in primary school
but my face has yet...

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The fireworks glaze the corners of my eyes
But I can't see, the bombs falling all around me
The rushing blood pumping through my legs
I can feel...

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you were stealing me from myself
my mitochondria, a little under the name,
while I was unmoored, talking to a mirror
who did not recognize me, caked in...

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i see the city from a high drift
all those shimmering lights
somewhere out in that sea of halogen and high wattage
you exist
i have an idea where...

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Most laboratory mischievous
was a petri dish birth of the patent soulless
Retrograde thought waves,
cold stream of computer code consciousness
Clone algorithm doppelgänger breathe
into a body of artificial...

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