1.Titanium is effective in stopping modern firearm rounds.
2.Titanium deforms under the stresses from the bullet's energy.
3.It depends on metal hardness and the velocity of the bullet.
4.The US military uses it's own heat-treated grades of Titanium.
5.Titanium helmets provide effective protection against bullets.
Note.Titanium and carbon fiber are good bullet resistant materials.
Social influence that influence ones belief and behavior,
being the sheep idiom in suit of group as inferior identity savior.
Compliances and obedience for the hero or nymph resort,
names and numbers as taste for pleasure of the court.
Instructive expectations in order to avoid looking foolish,
becoming strong in unity of the mass psychology bliss.
Procrastinations to adhere to moral obligation,
bringing out the darkest impulse to justify that situation.
Large scale atrocities for the greater good as ideal,
manipulated propaganda consequence imperial.
The change in response to pressure of social norms,
ethical values in humanity political deforms.
The mediocrity of conformity and its karmic hungry judges,
sentence wretches in time by individual budges.
The mental mill keeps on turning with the wind,
where fiery spirits blaze by gravity and its many scent.
The revolution not out there in golden words brocade,
freeing oneself from controlling theories need to be displayed.
Being infinitely pliable defines the space to be responsible,
and the soul of the world will give ones everything possible.
He hears again the far off
jiggling of keys in an ignition,
as the car rocks
his ears magnifying scrapes of sound.
eyes still seeing strafing lights on a dim road.
He had already turned from the windscreen,
A dark evening, a gritty sleet, and under it,
the bloodied head, the matted fur,
the thin shanks of shock laid bare –
then the second car.
That car disjoints and deforms
a creature into a death-spread.
Moths, like dark flowers press against his
dazed thoughts.
Warm metal ticks on.
I am very pleased to be able to present
our sixth collaboration, with my great friend
and very talented poet, Lawrence Sharp.
Always a true honor for me to be able to
collaborate with such a friend and very
talented artist.
A Shadow Emerges
As its light was shining bright
a dark shadow crossed the scene,
a curse in the day and night
vile-blood spilled from splintered spleen.
Sickness invades absent mind
doubts attack with no reprieve,
thoughts invade,darkest kind,
Hell acts fast, we must believe.
Shadow has taken its form
light's splendor, it now deforms
Darkness, deforming the light,
casts and forms the shadow’s might.
Having snuffed the shining light,
darkest shadow claimed the scene,
it no longer stood in sight,
for it was all, all unseen.
Scourge of Disease only ends
when death ascends to its throne,
now the form contorts and bends,
final chill darkens the bone.
Robert J. Lindley and Lawrence Sharp
collaboration
I am very pleased to be able to present
a sixth collaboration with great friend and poet,
Robert Lindley, who is well known to you all
for his magnificent epic masterpieces.
Our latest collaboration is marked by
an unexpected brevity that has, I believe,
pleased us both in its pointed execution.
I am proud to continue to write
with such a fine collaborator.
A Shadow Emerges
A collaboration with Robert Lindley
6th February 2019
As its light was shining bright
a dark shadow crossed the scene,
a curse in the day and night
vile-blood spilled from its splintered spleen.
Sickness invades absent mind
doubts attack with no reprieve,
thoughts invade,darkest kind,
Hell acts fast, we must believe.
Shadow has taken its form
light's splendor, it now deforms
Darkness, deforming the light,
casts and forms the shadow’s might.
Having snuffed the shining light,
darkest shadow claimed the scene,
it no longer stood in sight,
for it was all, all unseen.
Scourge of Disease only ends
when death ascends to its throne,
now the form contorts and bends,
final chill darkens the bone.
OPENING THE MIND'S PETALS
Smoldering life spreads suffocating smoke all over
Clouds the insular mind in pessimistic opacity,
Beauty unseen beyond the myopic vision unclear
Deforms in mind defined by contours of negativity.
From the depth of depression it’s time I recover
The sunk values of life, appreciate their sanctity.
It’s time I leave desolate psychic landscape behind
In flowers of a new garden I open petals of my mind.
April 14, 2018.
Pillars Fall
Pillars fall between swift moving clouds collapsed
They were once white fluffy ghosts along the coast
Statues watch suspiciously at a distance
Recognize their engineered solidity secure
Their facility for beauty, at play inside the mist
As history deforms, goes on into the fog forewarned
Structures hold themselves together tenuously
Marbled and clean relaxed
They too fall between the cracks
Pillars come apart for lack of care
Love barely holds them in a coupled hand
A formula somewhere in the distance
Turns cylindrical objects into powder over time
To become the gray serene
Pillars hold themselves together
Follow swift clouded logic clear
In a crash they fall collapsed
Being Inanimate has detractors
Advantages unseen across the ages
A sound echoes from the past
Disappears like laughter silenced
Or a pillow soft, objects lost
Pillars dissapear
A torn sepia picture deforms my lovelorn face.
Song--Traces of Love by The Lettermen
One Liner 7
December 14, 2015
She wishes this love would turn cold
This care would run away
Independence would visit a second time
Untangle her from this tango of virtues and vices
She wonders where she went wrong
Is it this choice of love?
Every other day, her heart hurts
Every other day, her eyes dew
Every other day, her mind goes ablaze
Is it this choice of love?
Always rosy this life she didn’t envision
For even roses bloom and at some point faint
Neither did she imagine losing her contented self
Is it this choice of love?
She tries to make it work-
But each try meets a pull;
She got entwined with lies and infidelity
It seems to a heart that breaks more than it loves
In love she grew with the “truth” that hid these facts
And as the “truth” deforms, facts surface
She wishes she’d fallen in
Then she wouldn’t have grown fond of eternity
She wouldn’t have given herself wholeheartedly to the vows
She wouldn’t try so hard to make it work
She would walk out easily, patch her breaking parts apart
She wishes she’d fallen in; then she’d fall out
But she grew
And she just can’t uproot this love and care
Easy isn’t abc out the door
A Shadow Emerges
As light was shining bright
a shadow crossed the scene
A curse in the day and night
bile spilled from the spleen;
Sickness invades an absent mind
doubts attack with no reprieve
Thoughts invade,darkest kind,
Hell acts daily we must believe
Shadow has now taken its form
light's splendor it now deforms!
Robert Lindley, 06-23-2015
The world isn't gentle
It can be callous and cold
Dangling hope in front of you
While swiping the wallet
From your back pocket
We're supposed to have a chance
But the average layman
Will never see their efforts bear fruit
Life tears at our flesh
It batters us and slowly deforms us
Turns us into ghosts
Sucking the life
From the newer generations
Simply to survive
Because we're offered precious little time
And second chances are scant
So we make do with what we have
And hope
That what we have is good enough
To let us endure
While Death steals our life away
People steal our pride away
And the government steals our liberty away
We're just the ants
Marching beneath the eyes
Of grasshoppers
We're just the cattle
Herded and slaughtered
So the rich
Can get richer
The world isn't gentle
It can be callous and cold
Dangling salvation in front of you
Simply
To damn you for eternity
O Lord sprinkle clean water on me
With your open hands do me welcome
Free me from all idols
For it is unworthy living among dead souls
Was me clean from everything that defiles
Erase my name from bad books and evil files
In your mercy grant me a new heart and mind
To create me more humane and make me kind
Put your divine spirit afresh in me
And see to it that I take thy laws home
Make me keep your commandments as you wish
Then feed me with your divine bread and fish
Let me be yours and you my God forever
While I deal the land that you gave me since ever
Save from everything that deforms my body
And keep my enemies a distant confused and shoddy
Let my fields grow corn and beans in plenty
While the flowers around bloom and remain scenty
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