Alabaster used for statues and vases
Brass and beryl
Calcite, relative of limestone and marble
Diamond, pure carbon
Erbium used for fiber optics
Fluorite boosts mental clarity
Gypsum and graphite
Hematite polished into beads
Iron used to make steel
Jadeite graded A B or C
Kunzite soft pink, lilac or violet
Limestone formed from shells and corals
Moonstone heightens psychic sensitivity
Nacre also mother-of-pearl
Opal plays with rainbow colors
Peridot August’s birthstone
Quartz used in electronics
Ruby red
Sapphire a deep Kashmir blue
Topaz November’s birthstone
Unakite green and pink granite
Vesuvianite discovered in Italy
Wavelite a rare aluminum mineral
Xanthite named by ancient Greeks
Yowah nut from Australia
Zircon of many colors
Our inventions long ago surpassed the wheel and fire
paper, compass, printing press, penicillin, rubber tire
vaccines, light bulbs, electricity, radio, and colored tv
rockets, air conditioning, fiber optics, printers 3-D
we always think everything ever invented already is.
Until someone proves us wrong, usually a kid with Whiz.
three women
in their seventies
travel four hours
walk their feet off
in largest art gallery around
crystal bridges
I am the baby of the group
a mere seventy-two
our driver is seventy-six
our birthday girl is seventy-five
the seventy-six-year-old is dancing around us
as we limp around the night tour of a forest
lit by fiber optics, with projector lights and sounds
I do not remember being out this late I say
it is nine-twenty-two.
we look for a restaurant
because we did not eat supper
they all closed at nine
the painting popped like fiber optics
like fluorescents, like neon acrylics
in hot pinks, magentas, turquoise and tangerines
with the precise amount of purples to make the hibiscus glow
I was entranced by this beauty!
Owl was unsure what makes fiber optics light up
He pushed back his supper, refusing to sup
I am not going to eat food or drink anything he said
Until I have the answer, lying safely in my head.
He read about quantum physics, and bioluminescent plants
Those reference books will not help him said his much wiser aunts,
They put electricity books in front of him, and arranged them pretty.
He read them all too, but then switched to San Francisco and New York City.
I don’t think he cares about fiber optics, he just likes to learn things.
His mother and father agreed, as he switched to books about kings.
He was reading about steam engines, power tools and other stuff.
Owl is a self-taught lifelong learner, and this is no guff!
Jackson had fallen in love with a hologram
she wore a fluorescent look
made of fiber optics and glass
he did not care, she was the only one he wanted
fabulous fluorescent fiber optics light show
seldom seen anywhere except spectacular Singapore
greeting us, promising more marvelous sights to see
an intergalactic runway of awesomeness runs toward me
Singapore rocks!
Fiber optics make such gorgeous Christmas trees
Enhance silk flower arrangement in a variety of degrees
Used in medical operations if you please.
Help phone signals according to my cousin Lees.
I wish I could wear them up and down my sleeves.
Though the trail has grown cold,
this never deters
Clues are always left behind ...
connections of a most human kind
Desperate souls feel a compulsive need
to leave cyber cadaver traces of a living memory
Holographic scrapbooks hidden in encrypted firewalls
Another person will have it stored
somewhere in an undetectable virtual vault
Clues inevitably left behind ...
encoded software of a fingerprint scent design
Whether here or there, it doesn’t matter where —
Tracker will find it
Nothing can remain unseen
from Tracker’s deep-space grade fiber optics
Many have used elaborate neural dampening shields
to cover their beta-wave tracks
And plenty use med-ob configuration distortion nodes
to mask their most unique cranial activity signature
But Tracker knows ...
she always find corporate government illegal those
With bloodhound genes lab womb grown
into her super-sensitive cloned nose,
Tracker will find you ...
it’s just a matter of countdown digital
Fiber Optics
Free verse
Humans are a conductor of light
Filled with fiber optics of color
Sunrise is nature’s optical lamp
Splitting particulates into desolation
To be a waterfall in the face of fire
Quenches the fires threatening rage
When water becomes the attacker on land
Then be the boat that rescues the drowning
If the cliff is breached become a mountain
As the mountain top bitterly freezes find
Your solace in the valley of summer blossoms
If the sand is pulled from the beaches be the jetty
Be a
A
Peace Maker
Carole Cookie Arnold
In a world terrifying
One must make oneself hard
Because if you speak honestly
You will be feathered and tarred
To avoid heresy seekers
You willingly commit sin
Thus every time it's possible
You purposely harden your skin
Time inevitably passes
You feel strong to the core
And all you had to sacrifice
To feel nothing anymore
And that childhood honesty
That warned you of danger
Are now the strangest memories
Of some far away stranger
And those twinges of regret
As if you have lied
Are purged from your thoughts
Because you have arrived
You hear the clank of metal
As they run a diagnostics
It's an exoskeleton upgrade
As they rewire your fiber optics
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