Estimates Poems

Demolition

We’re taking down an old and rotting barn;
perhaps “garage” might be a better term.
Blue metal siding, faded long ago,
has not come easy; this I can confirm.

The timbers, cut when measurements were real,
provide a clue to estimates of age.
The wood is likely oak, extremely rough;
the cost in today’s terms is hard to gauge. 

Another building will replace this one;
I’m not sure it will stand the test of time,
but this one’s days are definitely done.
I would replace it too, if it were mine.

The metal roof came off, all rusted out;
The joists and rafters, all that now remain.
I’ll hit it hard tomorrow with no doubt 
the effort will be worth the aches and pains.

Irreversible Changes

When I watch the news, I become concerned about humanity's future, alarmed at the speed of irreversible changes happening to our planet, from global warming to climate change and the possible extinction of plankton and coral reefs. I've witnessed devastating floods in Bangladesh, India, Japan, and China, as well as droughts in the United States, Somalia, and Morocco, displacing thousands of people from their homes. The world is in crisis! According to the most recent United Nations estimates, Earth’s population was 7.9 billion as of 2021. We cannot sustain the lifestyle we enjoy today on a planet with shrinking, finite resources. People are living longer, demanding more, and are rapidly destroying the world’s ecosystems. We've ravaged and poisoned our oceans, burnt or cut down our forests, and squandered our fossil fuels. Whatever future calamities await the human race, they will be life-changing and as inevitable as Death and the rise and fall of the tides.


hunger fuels hate
there's no compassion in greed...
a baby is born

A Logical Analysis of Events So Far

Floaters crisscross blinking eyes.
After a brief scientific analysis
it is concluded that an invasion of minute
alien spacecraft has occurred.

An optician assures:
these aberrant phenomena are perfectly normal
for a non-perfect being.

Unverified estimates of an unknown illness;
projections of billions of invasive germs follow,
tank-like organisms working overtime
to smash through flesh and plasma
reigning shock-shells of dissolution
onto peace loving white knights.

It is to be hoped that microbial
barbaric and brawny hosts
of avenging bacteria will soon
assault these malignant besiegers
from the rear. Surprise attacks
from all sides

until the munching, mad
germs in their pointy Prussian war helmets are
subdued, but it’s touch and go
it can turn out either way.

The day is spent ignoring
simple explanations of ocular spots
knowing for certain only infected spacecraft
can possibly maneuver like that.

If You Are a Female

Remember this
World is bad and selfish
Nobody loves anybody
Everyone think only about themselves

Husbands care only for their family
Your feelings and emotions 
are always ignored after marriage

Parents only aim is to get you married
They will never tell you the truth 
of life after marriage
Drinking husband, bad Mother-in-law...
They just want to Chuck you out

If you are a female
Please study well
Earn loads of money
Buy an house of your own
Until that happens don't marry
Don't listen to anyone
Not even your parents

I will never forgive my parents
for hiding harsh truths of life from me
For never being strict with me
when it came to studies
For not making me bold and independent

I will not forgive you. 
I am suffering.
I am sorry.
 
Note: fictional based on experience
Note : Global estimates published by WHO indicate that about 1 in 3 (35%) of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.

Plague of Madness

Whom among us are free?
You've a fever?
Sweating and fearing the next test-
of best estimates and a last guess?

Septum and blight;
yet not a roll in sight;
got the sniffles? Got the flu? 
The Birdman calls for you.

Watch your wife cry.
Watch your children die.
Watch the public mania hopelessly sigh;
and then - their depression.

Snake Island

Estimates say there is one venomous snake
Per square meter, 4000 in total, a snake clambake
“Golden Lancehead Vipers”
Deadly venomous snipers
Remind me never to visit Snake Island by the lake!

Jaws

Its huge jaws can break any cage,
The dark deep blue world is its maze.
Drops of blood make it insane;
It can chase you like a train.
It's megalodon - don't get engage.
______________________________

Megalodon is an extinct species of shark.

Most current, scientifically accepted estimates for the Megalodon's maximum size fall into the 60-70 foot range, with a weight of 50-70 tons. Compare that to the largest living shark, the Great White that maxes out at about 21 feet and 3 1/2 tons. 

Date - 2/9/2018
Contest - Any animal or creature Limerick
Sponsored by - Charles Messina

Perspective and the Journey

Our Universe is unimaginably large.
Tendrils of galaxies spreading out in every direction as far as the eye can see. Hundreds of millions in every direction. Some estimates suggest there could be 500 billion galaxies in our universe. Each galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars.
Many now believe our universe is but one in an ever-expanding multiverse of limitless size and age.

We live our lives on a mote of material small beyond definition.
How do we square this reality? How do we keep things in perspective? What’s the point really? We are just specks on a speck.

Organized human civilization is maybe 20,000 years old. The industrial revolution only 200 years old, we believed 100 years ago our galaxy was the universe.

Our understanding of reality has come far yet it’s just a pinpoint on an infinite scale of knowledge.

The point I guess is the journey, keeping our existence in perspective, staying humble and keep pushing the envelope of our knowledge.

Nailing Man's Fear

While harvest of 
earth is bounty, divine
Millions cease to exist
 from starvation .
How to allay famine, 
a dreadful sign
When nature endows all 
without ration ?
The world yields enough 
crops through sun or rain--
And river beds swim 
with fish of seasons,
Providing decent meals 
from nourished grain
Then why this famish 
for selfish reasons?

Fear ll Contest, Debbie Guzzi   
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* The United Nations estimates that about
795 million people of the 7.3 billion people
in the world, or one in nine, were suffering 
from chronic undernourishment in 2014-2016.

*It is believed that a principal underlying cause
of poverty and hunger is the operation of
economic systems in the world that resources
end up in the hands of a rich minority.

Kokopelli

it is chiefly
the hump on his back
that gives grandeur
to the gait of the bearer
more than his whistle
or his antennas

whispering
one estimates off-the-cuff
what the treasure will be
as his steps approach
proclaimed by rumor

"Water carrier was there,
snakes have been searching,
Thunderbird flew over again
and the sun has been called.
Kokopelli comes,
comes, comes...

His abundance! "

it is for ever
the inconclusive time
catching the tracks
of the carrier and his treasure
in stone
that gives him breath

A Winter Surprise

A Winter Surprise

By Elton Camp

In the days before we had Doppler radar
Weather prediction couldn’t go very far

Without views from the orbiting satellite
The estimates given often weren’t right

In the early fifties, I recall such an event
In short sleeves, a sunny day we spent

Cold rain tonight, said the weather forecast
But there came an unexpected winter blast

The clouds turned dark and angry gray
Snow might follow if it looked that way

The blizzard found all of us unprepared
Alabama’s rare snows make folks scared

Grocery stores filled with hustle and shout
Milk, bread, eggs, batteries were soon out

On trees and roads, did snow accumulate
All rushed to homes before it was too late

On lines, laden limbs came crashing down
The electricity went out all over our town

Familiar sights became a snowy fairyland
Children at windows found it so grand

Shrubs became glistening mounds of white
The barn a towering mountain of delight

Auto traffic on the roads must cease
Bringing a stillness and welcome peace

Ways of Living Xi

the self-fulfilling prophet
who estimates situations
& then switches their own
perspective so as to suit
the outcome---
operating within the same 
lens of which they already 
had established prior to
entering into anything,
really, that first step out of
the bed in the morning
can be reduced to a 
logical statement 
assessing the whole of
one’s life, every single
step of the way---never
passing up the chance
to beat oneself up &
then to substantiate the 
action by proving 
oneself to be right 
about it, after changing
one’s perspective to
suit the beating in the 
first place.

In Pits of Pain

Inside scrapings of darkness
how restless and doomed,
the bellow crashing in like
an agonized moon; 

the tunnel hears blood whooshing
in pits full of rain,
hurling damn imaginings
of her fetus’ pain,

wails rip through the stained window
and grinds near right lung,
heart reeks for a babe frozen 
knowing breath is gone;

if I could pluck her memories
from uterine wall,
to touch sun’s glint christening
new eyes on dawn’s call.

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*Sadly,research estimates that approximately 1 in 4
 pregnancies end in miscarriage; and most women
experience a grief period during such occurrences.

For Susan's If These Walls Could Talk Contest

The Fifth

music
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“element” . three
" drive it like you stole it "
it’s quiet and quite
like elementary
as simple is
what’s obviously

“you”

the sensus communis
dimensionally . speaking
and thinking it through
should make perfect
the senses too

“of five wits”

dear William, it’s true
the core imagination
estimates memory
of focused fantasy
is commonly known
as the time in sensory
of a . motion…

" extra yet ordinary "
means of extraordinary
to show a notion

pursued

" do you feel it "
transcendentally . speaking
can you ‘here’ it . leaking

into a pull
of gravitationally dull
yet immediately accessible
" understanding "

Doctor 
of incarnations
for the sake of relations
do you see…
the identity of 
a.muse

Marlboro Man

Marlboro Man


Autumn's over.
Wheat cake odors flood 
the wood front porch. Andrew Block,

in mackinaw and overalls,
tamps first tobacco of the day
and estimates his morning.

In an open field
beyond McDiver's Creek
Andrew Block can see his colt,

palamino apricot and snow,
nip grass between great gallops 
and the shock of trees.


Donal Mahoney

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