1879
...1879
First light bulb
Invented by Thomas Edison
1879
Over 3,000 designs
A science inventor
Carbonized filament
History in the making
Eclectic lightening
An extraordinary idea
Glas...
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Categories:
carbonized, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
My New Addiction
...For sixteen years I did not drink a can of carbonized soda.
Then I remembered how much I used to like cream soda.
I asked my husband to bring some home from the store.
This was the beginning of my...
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Categories:
carbonized, me,
Form: Free verse
Defaulted Leaders
...I wish you would’ve told me,
That I was no longer worth your time.
Your back-handed alabaster murmurs
Stroll passed my skeptical exhales
As I greeted you like adults should
But, your whitene...
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Categories:
carbonized, leadership, life, people,
Form: Free verse
New Year
...NEW YEAR
a clear slate with chalk
don’t bollix up the board
with mathematical equations
let it snow from erasers
applauding forgiveness
let your words wander
from coast to coast
coveri...
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Categories:
carbonized, new year,
Form: Free verse
Circumspice 3
...Part 3 -- Sir Christopher Wren
"Resurgam". What a righteous word it is!
The Latin form of "I will rise again".
I'd like it on my tomb. A scientist
I was, a humble Oxford teaching drudge,
w...
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Categories:
carbonized, history,
Form: Blank verse
A Poet Mandate
...
A poet will write once,
a poet will write yet again
And all of the words written therein,
are the sum of the poet's pen
A poet writes about life,
a poet writes about death
And anything a...
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Categories:
carbonized, perspective, poets, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Soul Stance River - 24
...Our fortified camp is well out of range of arrow, or gun shot, except the rear flank,
of course the Shoshone are reputed to be deficient in firearms
but are expert in hand weapons and guerilla tact...
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Categories:
carbonized, adventure,
Form: Epic
Departures
...I never overcame your departure brothers
since then
my feet walk crippled
the kidney only filters half of the residues
my heart partially collapsed
and beats insufficiently
the gastric juice be...
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Categories:
carbonized, death, loss,
Form: Free verse
As Life Begins To Wane
...On countrysides animal scurry along, leaving footprints
In the carbonized material of this planet.
Channel surfing & empty ink pens,
Pepsi & wadded up candy wrappers
All over the house re...
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Categories:
carbonized, life
Form: I do not know?
Yet More Cosmic Thoughts
...iron sun in a universe grown cold,
still, lightless and lifeless,
surrounded by universes bursting
with thought
captured moons of long dead suns
spinning off into a meaningless void
once life...
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Categories:
carbonized, devotion, life, nature, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue