Best Webb Poems
Early morning and the gantry cranes
at Webb Dock look like long necked
dinosaurs lining up to drink from the river -
and the sky is aglow as it might have been
when tinged by the first hint of that asteroid
slamming into Yucatan on the other side
of the world 66 million years ago.
This is 2025 and no asteroid threatens
our fragile planet, yet more subtle
things do - things that reside in the dark
precincts of the human soul that pour
out pollution and in silos and undersea,
stoke embers that could at anytime
break free and incinerate us all.
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Will event of creation be revealed
By the James Webb telescope
Concentrating time
Like a kaleidescope?
Galaxy after Galaxy
Slowly being revealed.
Will the moment of Creation
Always remain concealed?
Will we ever see the glory
Of the birth of timespace,
Can James Webb ever show us
Creation taking place
Or will that event remain
Tantalisingly out of sight
So no Theory of Creation
Can ever be proved right?
Is the James Webb Telescope
Just a step too far
Should we not accept
We are what we are.
Just because we can
Doesn’t alway mean we should
Maybe sometimes a mystery
Can be for the common good.
Should the thirst for knowledge
Remain achingly unsated
Do we really need to know
How such beauty was created?
Are we unique sentient beings
Set here to record and investigate
Or an accident of nature, by chance
Unable to accept our inevitable fate?
James Webb Telescope enables us
To less blindly search, to grope
Towards an understanding that may
Give our species future survival hope.
Where the stars are born in a cosmic cloud,
There's searing heat in the coldness of space.
The sight of each star, just one of a crowd,
Adds to the presence of Heaven's good grace.
Distant, but clear, as it crosses the void,
It comes into being just like the sun.
We think of the White Dwarf, now long destroyed
And the life of the new, bright star begun.
Will it have planets like Venus and Mars,
Will it have oceans and wildlife and such?
We'll never see them among distant stars
Far from our sight, but it matters so much.
I'd love to see the new world far away
For it lives in my mind day after day.
My neighbor is a responsible drinker, he won't drink and drive.
If other people were as smart as him, many people would still be alive.
Joe will not drive a vehicle if he has been drinking.
That is responsible behavior and it's also good thinking.
If you're about to drink and drive, remember Joe because he's an inspiration.
Driving while intoxicated is very dangerous and that is not an exaggeration.
(Dedicated to Joe Webb.)
She wore thick leggings
our childhood polio albatross
mass Sabin vaccine sauce
body snatcher ritual
fixed beautiful legs.
(In early elementary school she wore braces most of the way through 6th grade. We all went to the nearby JHS to drink the approved Sabin vaccine. By 7th grade she had healed. She had beautiful, working legs.) She has recently, physically passed. This is in remembrance of her.)
Like a spiders Webb
You warp around me
Your body keeps me warm when it's cold out
I can feel your heart beating against mine
And I finally feel safe
I finally feel like my life is right
I don't wanna die anymore
I wanna live my life so I can spend it with you
You're like a spiders Webb
If I try to leave
You pull me back in
All you have to do is say my name
And fall back in love with you
I know if something bad ever happens
You will be there telling me it's ok
You are the perfect guy for me
I'm sorry it took so long
I love you
My neighbor's wife is battling cancer and she needs your prayers.
Please show her that you want her to get better, please show that you care.
Her name is Jane Webb and she's undergoing chemotherapy.
She needs prayers from you and she needs prayers from me.
John Randolph Webb
claimed he never went to Zagreb
instead, he at home did stay
and gave us Sgt Joseph Friday