As a chemical engineer I know
The streamlines of fluid flow
The laws of mass and energy
And the reactions behind chemistry
Material balances begin the journey
Accounting mass even from chimney
Energy balances complete the basic design
The feasibility is ready to sign or resign
I admire the catalyst's art
Making slow reactions go fast
I control process with care
Keeping plant safe while flare.
Heat transfer helps conserve energy
And thermodynamics improving exergy
Mass Transfer improving separation
With high quality appreciation
Distillation, Mixing, and Reactors too,
Are essential tools for all I do.
From oil and gas to food and glass
Chemical engineers make products high class
From desalination to cleaner air
I engineer solutions everywhere
Protecting people, the land, and the ocean
Through safe chemical plant operation
And last but not the least
Economics is a major beast
No matter a chemical process large or small
Behind it chemical engineers stand tall
Pureness, peace, compassion, bliss, Power, and Wisdom,
That links my reason-spirit body-soul system;
Tells me that my physique is a temple of God,
Though my day-to-day existence is flighty odd...!
Sufferings and pains wreck my delicate physique,
The feasibility of survival is bleak;
Jabs and tingles and stings and burns, and fleshly aches,
Sake my body; break it; leave it like mere sweepstakes...!
Do, yet, though wings get clipped, birds ever fail to sing?
Don't, midst caste, color, and creed gulfs wedding bells ring?
Physique, though a bundle of flesh, blood, veins, and bones,
Aren't there, within, caves of metaphysical zones...?
Joy is within, as fragrance within the flower,
Isn't the spirit, more than flesh, give me power?
Physical aches can't imprison the psychic zings,
This is why though bones ache my heart cheerfully sings...!!!
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Bones ache yet heart sings Poetry Contest
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The time has come to damp down gridlock and polarization
For the country's citizenry to treat each other with basic decency
To stop resorting, at the slightest offence, to righteous indignation
The time has come...
The time has come to stop shouting and screaming, to restore civility
To stop finger-pointing accusations and character assassination
To stop the invective, the slander, the libel, and to act with dignity
The time has come...
For leaders to get off their soapboxes, to cease the endless bloviation
Not to promise 'free everything,' to promote fiscal prudence, feasibility
To acknowledge the populace's apathy, to lift the veil of total frustration
The time has come...
WETTING HIS FEET
HE SOUGHT THOSE
WHO BELIEVED AS HE DID
THOSE WHO COULD SPEAK THE KNOWLEDGE
OF BELIEVING
THAT ALL WHO COULD HEAR HIM
WOULD SEE THE VISION
AND ALL WHO COULD HEAR HIM WOULD
HEAR HIS URGENCY
HE STOOD TO CONVEY HIS MESSAGE
A TEAM WHO WISHED TO SUCCEED
WHO PLANNED AND ADAPTED
TO THE EVER CHANGING NEEDS OF PEOPLE
INSPIRING HOPE TO THOSE HE KNEW HE COULD HELP
AND D AN EXTENSION OF HIS HAND
TO THOSE HE WISHED TO REACH
EVERY PURPOSE DEFINED
WORDED TO EXPAND THE BROADENING BASE
FINDING THE FEASIBILITY THROUGH EXPLORATION
CREATING A SOMETHING FROM THE NOTHING
ASSIGNING RESPONSIBILITY TO THOSE
WHO ARE ABLE TO DO THE JOB.
MAKING SENSE OUT THE SECLESNESS OF BEING IN VERSE
MAKING ACCOUNTABLE THOSE
WHO ARE POSITIONED TO BE ACCOUNTABLE
GETTING THE JOB DONE!
OF NEW BEGINNINGS
READING THE TONE
TO CONVEY THE MESSAGE
THAT ALL WHO BELIEVE MIGHT UNDERSTAND.
Once Sariputra has paid a visit to the UN meeting.
- Social justice remains an elusive dream for poor people around the world, - the first speaker said.
- Besides economic efficiency, side effects, funding mechanisms and political feasibility that can be taken into account, - the second one underlined.
- To us, social justice is about the emancipation of men and women, - the third specified.
- Social justice for all Indonesian people is symbolized by the gold and white paddy and cotton plant, - the fourth speaker described it in a pretty metaphorical way.
- It is time to call world by its true name: social justice, - the fifth stated.
When the sixth one, a serious, bearded man, headed to the rostrum, Sariputra got bored with looking at them.
«There is neither dream, nor poor and reach, nor economics, nor side effects, nor efficiency and feasibility, nor emancipation, nor men and women, nor Indonesia, nor gold and white paddy, nor cotton, nor world, nor social justice», - Sariputra thought and, taking a yawn, went to the Maltsevsky market where, they say, a blind man was given a knitted shawl.
Eddy lives in the gullibility and cohesibility of a gritty city
Between assimilability civility reality and triviality
Here Eddy’s senility is merely an eligible technicality
A wink of eccentricity fragility debility futility impossibility risibility
Still under that mighty illusion of invincibility virility and viability
Invisibility’s equivalent to gentility favouring stability and incredulity
Eyes void of deceptibility infallibility predictability divisibility
Eddy is still irresistibly witty with intelligibility bordering geniality
The indelibility of his ability versus disability for agility and flexibility
Gives Eddy eligibility admissibility accessibility feasibility visibility and divisibility
Implicit credibility whimsicality spirituality frivolity and squeezability
Eddy believes there’s no margin for self-pity when you own a pretty itty bitty kitty
AP: 3rd place 2025
Submitted on March 25, 2018 to contest ALLITERATION POEM sponsored by SILENT ONE - RANKED 2ND
(20/07/2011)
Are those tears on your cheek?
What’s the blank doing in your eyes?
How can you be this weak?
You know cry is enough than cries
You were as bright as the stars
And as solid as iron
Now look at your scars
Do you have any particular reason?
Why the pain stroked you?
For truth only, please, share me the clue
Why you keep running,
Toward ambiguity instead of reality?
Can’t you just try not sobbing?
Hurt, is only feasibility
Come to me and be opened
Closer to me and you’ll be listened
Let me hold you
And together we can get through
Her behaviour was exceptionable but exceptional.
She has enormity of inflammable but flammable,
Her feasibility generalize that women is most credible,
Naturally internment, ingenious but usually seasonable.
Prevaricate, masterful and triumphal but confessional,
Intensive to locate liability to decimate flout,
Careable, loveable, a family addicted always in doubt,
Import surcharge, impediment, tortuous, indulgent decisional.
Children and woman why conflicts conscience consignment,
What is consensus, consecutive censure considering?
Conservatism is consequential continuous consistent,
Living is execute and executive, exempt revising.
Nature, God or sophistication who is defendant?
Hell or heaven, what is important living excising?
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