You may know this,
or perhaps not
that dust was formed, and life begot,
created by the “Big Bang” birth
which built the stars,
Sun, planets, Earth.
The minerals which
stardust spun
shaped special life, beneath the Sun.
We humans, too, relied on dust's
prized oxygen-
for life, a must.
With nitrogen
and helium,
plus hydrogen, it was begun.
Yes, from the stars, this dust became
the start of us
Humans, by name.
We hail you, dust-
that from the stars
this miracle of life is ours,
and God was there to start the flow
that formed His
Universe below.
When I think of you, I think of you as my color yellow.
Bright, beautiful, happy and drawing in like the sun. Your energy is captivating. Your love is warm and full, giving me a hug so tight and embracing not letting go.
I don’t want to let go and at times I seek shade.
The color of you will eventually fade but your light shines bright within my chest as it beats.
You are my living testimony of my favorite color. My favorite heat wave from the chemistry of our love on this earth exists.
Hydrogen and oxygen will never die down our fire. You are my sun, the light that I desire.
Earth appears serene from outer space
Showing not a trace of who hates whom,
A cloudy veil shields her face as if modesty prevails
In the cosmic beauty of nebulae and galaxies~
Five billion years from now who will remember?
NOTE; The Sun is expected to die in approximately 5 billion years. Currently, at about 4.6 billion years old, it is middle-aged and will continue to burn hydrogen for another 5 billion years before running out of fuel. It will then expand into a red giant, likely consuming inner planets before fading into a white dwarf.
Spectacular is the planet Saturn.
Second largest planet in Solar group
holding extensive gorgeous ring-pattern.
Rocky icy ringlets form hula hoop.
Ring system is to lose ice particles.
to ring - rain constant and continuous.
Stunning ring will be gone, not miracle
within million of years , oblivious.
The gas giant holds no solid surface.
Mostly are helium and hydrogen
Buttery yellowish brown, more or less.
Atmosphere is enriched by nitrogen.
In dense atmosphere , runs strong wind-power :
Hexagon typed storm at North Pole : alive.
Saturn day is less than eleven hours.
Year exceeds twenty -nine years : Do believe.
Ninety five times more massive than the Earth
In water could float, extreme light Saturn.
Two hundred seventy four Moons took birth.
With hydrogen lakes, biggest is Titan.
Saturn waits in the cold quiet of space,
A sentinel wrapped in golden rings,
Its pale light leans over hidden moons,
Each orb dances in elliptical patience.
Storms turn on its vast gaseous surface,
Cloud bands swirl with silent secrets,
Ammonia crystals shimmer in the upper haze,
There is no ground, only layers upon layers.
Shadows of rings sweep across its pale yellow,
A crown of icy debris, ancient and unbroken.
Enceladus glistens, flinging geysers skyward,
Titan cloaks itself in an orange mystery.
Saturn whispers stories to distant spacecraft,
The wind is measured in hundreds of miles per hour.
Light takes more than an hour to reach it from our sun,
Patience is written into every orbit.
It is both beacon and enigma to astronomers,
A world of hydrogen, helium, and longing.
If we listen, the planet hums with unseen music,
Its beauty is the silence between the stars.
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At first, it was only hydrogen
humming in the dark~
a single note stretched thin
across the ribs of nothing.
Then the stars learned to count,
their bright fingers tallying
the arithmetic of light.
Galaxies folded into themselves,
remembering.
Now the void whispers equations
to any ear pressed close enough~
the gravity between thoughts,
the slow calculus of dust
forming hands and eyes
the unbearable weight
of a mind vast enough
to ask:
Am I alone?
And somewhere,
a pulse echoes back:
No.
All enduring, all empty, all lies black,
This is the velvet on which stars are born;
Cold clouds collapsing as waves inward pack,
Hydrogen fusing to fire its first morn.
Suns swim in the shadows of space,
Lighting like luminous lace.
But there are hills that no mountain can be,
Jupiter lacking the mass for a star;
Though, so better; so better glow to see,
Rapture in heavens, soft twinkling afar.
With brilliant beauty eyes to fill,
Dwarf to suns, yet giant still.
Slow somber silksome shadows, soft, alone,
Wild streaming currents, and moons race around;
Copernicus, Galileo had shown,
Proved from their orbits, the ancients unsound.
A jewel in its solitude set,
Mysteries but half known as yet.
O, soft splendor of eve, is all but show?
Drawing the heart, but no heart beating back?
Soft serenity, secrets seems to know.
Can it hold answers for what our lives lack?
The universe is formed from things,
Yet its beauty softly sings.
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Jimmy, God is smarter than you,
it took billions of years
For volcanoes to appear
Then the oceans and the atmosphere,
Jimmy, God is smarter than you,
If oxygen and hydrogen are pure
If the water is pure, and the sky so blue,
It’s because he thought of you,
Jimmy, God is smarter than you,
If the galaxy turns around itself
If the earth revolves around the sun,
If time makes all this work,
Jimmy, God is smarter than you.
what to do with the silence?
Why count the days that pass?
We are only afraid of our watches,
Our houses protect us from the rain,
Our cars cross the beautiful Arizona,
Our gardens don’t need mirrors
We are only afraid of our watches,
Mangoes nourish jealous poets,
The peasants cultivate the rice fields,
Why count the days that pass?
We are only afraid of our watches,
That of the sun, What does the sun consume?
Six hundred million tons of hydrogen per second.
What to do with silence? Offer it to the desert,
Offer it to the cats, to the roses of the garden,
To the young girls lowering their eyes,
Offer it to the blue sky, to the giant fig trees,
Why count the days that pass?
We are only afraid of our watches,
Why count the days that pass?
Let’s not be afraid of peony fields
We are only afraid of our watches,
What to do with the silence? Offer it to the horses,
To snails, camels, wines,
We would no longer be afraid of our watches.
Contemplate the sun, that celestial jewel
who happily burns hydrogen for fuel,
and shines away the night,
so then, before our earthly eyes,
we see vast and glorious blue skies -
and plants that photosynthesis
from its warmth and light.
The greens we eat will then provide
the sun's vitality, which we have inside,
causing us to shine -
and, like the sun, we can share
the energy we have to spare.
So, I propose a toast or prayer
to the universe divine.
One before the why
Neutrinos dance, the tenet
Encoded gem I
Hopi hydrogen
Unified twins, Gemini
Numbers, count by staff
Divided even
Release the energy chi
Equal scales by 2
Decide upon one
Y photon will equal c
Energy Ion
Arc flight of eagle
Ram or goat the choice be I
S- Martics be arc
Oscillate on thoughts
Fermions amount to sum
Quantum quarks made you
Unified field net
Alpha the numeric n
N number alpha
Tau weight equals au be you
Unit be star Q
Mass measured by staff
Set started on go
Catapult be to the stars
Independent Star
Electrons are a
New negative light of one
Cascade reason why
Elect charm at end
2 by way of the release
Infinity roar
Now finite beyond
For I am born one with sun
It’s all inside you
None but bold be the one Thoth
Inside the fire be one
Together be the ocean
Yet the ocean be drop too
By Steven Willis Henderson
6/23/25
F I r e burns, blazes
with vigour and energy ,
furious, outrageous,
dazzling in rigorous flames,
exhausting fuel, turning c r u e l.
p r l n
Also, enchanting flares in. ~~~s a k i g
in glaze and glare.
Primitive fire in Cosmic Explosion
Hydrogen is burning in fire ball Sun :
Prime source of Energy providing life on Earth
Molecules breaking into those of Helium
in Nuclear Fusion.
F I R E flights with frear,
makes mind clear
ignites dormant desires,
strengthens soul,
puts head higher.
F I R E The P U R I F I E R
Professor: Setting is inducing trust that as a writer you are not volatile, nor giving lesser detailed thought about those knick knack, mundane also. can you give me an example Johny?
Johny: Certainly , can I ask the narrator type?
professor: say, camera setting...
Johny : genre?
professor : prose poem, light hearted or serious, both will do.
Johny : here you go....I bought floss and Hydrogen per oxide from the nearby pharmacy. I wanted to pick up my medicine too, but they were reluctant, altogether, seemingly so. I had to bypass.
professor : why so?
Johny: the only audible sound was a song..."when you say nothing at all."
Surely , verily a cranky setting! tired too!
As the counseling session was declaring, they begin as a parent asleep, raise them up asleep and send them to school asleep. Dreams ahoy!
1-5-25______________1-25-25
125_________________525
21__________________105
3___________________15
1___________________5
0,0163%
of hydrogen
extracted from seawater
Deuterium when mixed
with tritium
under the influence
of extreme heat
and pressure
becomes a gaseous
hydrogen fuel
becomes a fusion plasma
generated in the Tomak
a tomak is an experiment
machine used to harness the
energy of fusion
charged participle of fusion
can be controlled
by magnetic coils
air and impurities are
evacuated from the vacuum
confinment and control of the
plasma are charged up
and the gaseous fuel is
introduced
powerful electrical currents
are run through
the vassal were gas breaks down
electrically
and then it becomes ironized
and electrons are stripped
from the nuclei
and forms a plasma
TO ACHEIVE FUSION THE
PLASMA IN THE TOMAK
MUST REACH
150,00,000 million
degrees!
Plasma particles become
energized and collide into one another
natural electromagnetic repulsion
om collision to fuse
the proposal for a
configuration of a magntic
fusion device.
1200 Packard Twelve
or a Ka de shi'erhao 1200
20 minutes!
Rainbow like flag emerged
Children born surrounded by waterless planets
World shifting to countries without borders
Long live the republic!
Children grows to be adams and eves
Clouds of not readily mixed oxygen and hydrogen unyielding rain
World shifting to countries without borders
Long live the republic!
Those born end up dying
Earth dries to dead earth
World shifting to countries without borders
Long live the republic!
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