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Carbonized Poems - Poems about Carbonized


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

Premium MemberMy 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



Premium MemberDefaulted 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

Premium MemberNew 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

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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

Premium MemberSoul 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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things