Glacial Lake Sonnet
It’s hard to comprehend when I look out,
but the science has left so little doubt,
ten thousand years back, this place I call home
was chilly depths, where only fishes roamed.
The whole if it a lengthy glacial lake,
but to my mind that seems like some mistake.
Ten thousand years…that doesn’t seem so long,
Karan Tepe is older, it feels
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Categories:
geology, age, change, history, how
Form: Sonnet
The Physics of Poetry, Geology of Truth
A poem’s like a snapshot of a quantum state of mind!)
where sharper image obfuscates the artist in the pix.
Reflections always backward; Man’s goals crippled from the start
for poetry’s a quest that rhymes with matters of the heart.
Dark matter’s hard to credit with the gravitas it owns.
Its mass eclipses stars that span the universe we see,
yet
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Categories:
geology, faith, science,
Form: Rhyme
Sandstone Rough Shale Cool
Sandstone, rough, gritty.
Shale. Cool, layered, shelved.
Beryl. Ugly but if you can keep it for a million years
You will have emerald and aquamarine from beryl.
I am staring at my piece now, watching it not change.
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Categories:
geology, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Geology and the Other Ologies
Geology, geometry, biology, biography
Anthropology, psychology, geography, photography,
Psychiatry, psychometry, cartography, graphography,
So many ol-ogies and og-Raph-ies, so little time.
Yet am I studying any of them?
Not today. Today I am sitting in my lazy girl,
Watching a year’s worth of a designer show.
I have been starring at other people working like mad.
Learning nothing but as it is my day
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Categories:
geology, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
geology, introspection, work, work,
Form: Free verse
Geology
The study of earth.
Topics are plate tectonics,
Rock types and rivers.
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Categories:
geology, education, science
Form: Senryu
Geology
Seasons come and go
The years pass away
Where the river flows
Deserts once held sway
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Categories:
geology, nature
Form: Quatrain