Teacher as a Chemist
Sarah's need for order
Marcus's wild imagination
Aisha's emotional intelligence
Thomas's critical thinking
Bonding occurs
through shared purpose:
"We sink or swim together"
Reactions happen
when elements combine:
conflict ? resolution
confusion ? clarity
individual ?
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Categories:
chemist, children, class, inspiration, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Microplastics
Microplastics
microplastics in our food
that steak dinner was excellent
my compliments to the chemist
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Categories:
chemist, food,
Form: Free verse
Sidewalk Chemist
I test the gum
And the scum
That came from
So many feet
Scrape the blood
And the crud
Between mud
Smooshed on concrete
I sample spit
Ample birds***
All with a flick
Of the wrist
Coz I’m your local
Wearing bifocal
Antisocial
Sidewalk chemist
I run a lab
And own a lab
Called Ahab
And when we walk
I grab a glut
Of cigarette butts
Ahab sniffs mutts
We rarely talk
I test the muck
Assay green yuck
Prod black
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Categories:
chemist, city, fun, science,
Form: Rhyme
God Is the Chemist That Produces Children
He doesn’t care how cute she is, how smart she is; He didn't care if she looked like his mother... Didn't know she was his legacy, sex made it easy for him to get from point A to point B: No responsibility, no attachments or sentimentality.
Was not about how adorable she is... He even
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Categories:
chemist, 8th grade, abortion, age,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Table of Knowledge
A Geek philosopher named Democritus
With his companion Leucippus
Believed matter is made up of tiny particles.
It is hardly noticeable.
At the turn of the 19th century
Dalton’s atomic Theory progressed Chemistry.
Supporting many important laws governing chemical changes,
Answering the many questions and mazes.
John Newlands made the Law of Octave,
But could never be a perfect octet.
Only a light in the
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Categories:
chemist, 9th grade, high school,
Form: Free verse
Beautiful Chemist
O chemist beautiful chemist!
How can a lady with such lure
Give these poor patients a cure?!
Even the ones who are well
With such smile become ill!
O chemist beautiful chemist!
Can you prescribe me a beauty
That doesn’t ache the heart?!, I beg you
I walked in with one pain
And walked out with two!
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Categories:
chemist, beautiful, beauty, heartbreak, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Chemist Shop
Chemist Shop
At the entrance of the pharmacy a dead sparrow,
no one seemed to notice this tiny death.
The bird just lied there with folded wings and eyes
suitable closed, ready to be put in a coffin.
I told a shop assistant about it, she swept the bird
with a broom, into the tall grass.
There were many women inside,
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Categories:
chemist, humor,
Form: Blank verse
The Chemist
Majoring in school as a biology chemist
Melanie finds joy conducting experiments
Taking full time units at Butte College
Learning, studying, gaining knowledge
Not surprised if her thing for frogs and tortoise
Came from having to dissect them on purpose
Hours spent in the lab looking for an answer
Maybe one day she’ll find a cure for cancer
Her wit is dry,
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Categories:
chemist, family
Form: Rhyme
The Chemist
you will long for this, Chemist,
i am sure.
inhale.
thicker than your skin,
whiter than the pupil of your eyes.
gush into your arteries,
it's pinholes, and pins,
and pin ticks, and stings.
from your foot,
(I was familiar with),
to your thighs,
above your ribs,
inside the chambers of your heart.
hold it!
barricade your spine,
this is not your usual migraine.
you will long for this, Chemist.
this
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Categories:
chemist, angst, fantasy
Form: Free verse