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Blended curriculum, a harmonious unity.
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Guide learners with compassion's clarity,
Vast in trends, educational advancement's reality,
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Sporting complex, a wonder in locality,
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oh much of what we know, do and see
has to do with our birth locality
you won’t know how to shuck corn in any way
unless born in Nebraska, Illinois or Ioway
Born in a forest, we are not awed by a tree
which could make your heart leap in New York City
Midwesterners could not ride well in a subway
unless you could teach them city skills in one lone day
oh much of what we know, do and see
has to do with our birth locality
we might be hicks, but we do well in sticks
whereas city slickers would be confused by our tricks.
SUM OF ALL POSSIBLE
A TWIST OF TIME
Quantum, a direct window into the heart of Reality
More of a philosophy than a rigorous morality
Electron fired through Double-slit experiment
Physicists and mathematicians make each other queasy in continuity
Sum of all ripple amplitudes in gravity
Twist time as an imaginary-number (i2 = -1) to trick congeniality
Feynman path integral entanglement
Our Reality is a sum of all possible locality
Timeless quantum leap sought immortality
Scientists throw Swiss-cheese space-time into hospitality
Mirror mirror on the wall, what is the fairest one of all?
wormholes, doughnuts, topology flighting for identity
All roads lead to one melody
Cope with teetering tower of infinity
Quantum quantum in the field, who is the spookiest one of all?
Einstein general relativity, Schrodinger cat’s vitality
Quantum, a direct window into the heart of Reality
More of a philosophy than a rigorous morality
Dying black holes predicament
Physicists and mathematicians sum up random walks in brutality
The town lost its street maps,
new plots of land appeared, houses were built
where just yesterday there had been none.
Her world seemed relocated,
changed, as if it had been redrawn.
They had not shared their likes or interests
they had not even shared an equitable life,
and at times had pawned and reclaimed each other,
negotiations and currency
always a part of an unwritten deal.
Now she understood how landscapes can change
minds see from their own windows
through different lenses.
She recalled with late regret
that each of them had not surrendered,
they coexisted in the same place
but a locality riddled with mirages,
scenes they mind-painted
with unseeing eyes.
FORM OF ABSOLUTES
ideas of temptation
within
boundaries
by
the defiant
&
breaking rules
of
conceptual art
with
a degree of withholding
& interpretation
of dreams
to transcend
beyond
issues of locality
&cultural specificities
conflicted
by egotism,&
narcissism
strengths &
vulnerabilities
in
duality
reflected in
the character of
interior life
confronted
by
bizarre
expectations
& absurdity
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Quantum Non-Locality or Inseparability
When a lady physicist became an environmentalist
Everything in my intellectual life touched your life
A mug may have more uses and lives than a mug
Two mugs may not have to clatter or clash to touch
Because Quantum Physics knows "The Butterfly Effect."
When you laugh, we all laugh with you ( despite masks)!
In John 17, Jesus said "My Father and I are One"
Then went on to urge us all to be One with them
God did not create all He did, to remain aloof, but for Communion
NOTE:
Communion also means "deep fellowship, sharing."
Looking out today on my locality
so many changes not for the better
everything moves ao fast and loose
all casual as nothing kept by the letter
Dressware like nothing as before
once in the past all dressed class
but now torn jeans is the norm
look in shock you just want to pass
Remember the good times of yesteryear
that generation standards held high
all very smart no matter the event
no respect for all, question why?
As one looks over the mountains
you see clouds hiding the very top
just like today, modern life outlook
one wants to shout, no more, stop!
Standards just don't exist anymore
freedom is the cue that goes overboard
nothing is barred all are let loose
one day pay the price we can't afford
(I live in southwest Scotland, comparing to the times I grew up in the 60/70s and the present situation today.)
A coalminer by trade Norman Cornish*
in his forties achieved his artistic wish
Like Lowry, at the end of his working day
locals&locality depicted in his own stylised way
*https://normancornish.com/
The tightening grip of the pandemic
Stifled the livelihood of many
With the daily wagers losing jobs
Mere survival was at stake.
A benevolent NGO opened an outlet
In our locality to provide daily
Food and provisions free
To the needy and the destitute.
Every morning scores of people
Stood in long tortuous line
Under the scorching summer sun
Until the shelves were empty.
In one such morning as usual
The line was moving slow
When someone proclaimed
Lockdown would start from midnight.
People broke the orderly line
Rushed in panic toward the food bank
Soon its shutters were pulled down
So pandemonium didn’t turn to scuffle.
August, 5, 2021
Contest : Panic At The Food Bank
Sponsor : Kai Michael Neumann
Everything you watch on your computer or TV,
everyone you communicate with electronically,
every movement you make, to or at any locality,
are all being monitored, recorded and archived by the powers that be,
all in the name of national and international security,
but that is not the true reality,
regarding this blatant violation of our personal privacy.
With all of this personal information Anybody,
can be set up to appear as someone they would never be.
This power is in the hands of a few, not the many,
and power always corrupts inevitably,
but absolute power always corrupts absolutely,
at least that is what history has always taught me.
We are all places, barring
That one locality
Fulfillment-ripe, in reach of.
Wish's sunned; and lazy!
The soul of disenchantment;
And the bane of us all!
Haunted, from o'er the next hill
By its lone-sounding call.
Who is the phantom, but lives
His own true self not in!
For what's forced on its esteem
In facade's see-through grin.
Jerry, a jim-dandy jezebel in a jerkwater town,
Jiggled her jangles, joking her jubilant ways up and down.
Juicily Junoesque and jocular, Jerry jawed with the best.
Such jiggery-pokery was soon put to this jerky town’s test.
Jailbirds jammed the sidewalks to see Jerry walk by.
Her jabberwocky jabbering gave them a reason to sigh.
A jaunty jokester with joyous absolute joviality,
Jerry was accepted as the jubilant jezebel of this locality.
Have You Got Gas?
By: Tom Wright
8/1/2006
I power your mowers and propel your cars
One of many derivatives from a barrel of oil,
Pushing three stage rockets past the stars
I’m used to power machines that work the soil.
From our Electrical Grids to Co-generation
There isn’t a locality where I’m not seen needed.
I push, pull, and propel this great nation
While signs of my shortage go relatively unheeded.
Were experiment with solar and fructose the beet
We make ethanol from corn, and if It’s so keen.
Lets go one step further to something really neat
Why not harness our gas from the lowly bean?
World stills of nature's hospitality
showing modesty and humility.
Sunlight dapples the hill's locality
winking through pines peace and tranquility.
A living, breathing, viability
cascading aquatic agility,
fluttering independent entity,
shine purely within the vicinity.
Dark trees, ferns, await dawn's stability
alive in amazing facility.
Birds sing providing audibility.
Brilliance with mental capability,
My mind's eye exceeds my ability
course the utmost responsibility
becoming a part of me willingly.
Warm seasons ebbing a reality,
winter will follow in servility.
5/27/2018
Be judged upon but judge not,
Goes the adage of the ancient,
Its true,people have got pseudo careers,
They have become Judges and rumour carriers,
Theirs is to raise noses,
And discuss others vices.
Yeah,they say I aint worthy,
Some see me as a misfit,
Others see me as the lost sheep,
The whole locality sees am indecent,
They judge me.
They judge me from my clothings,
From my talks they judge me,
They judge me from my believes
From everything i do they find faults.
BUT, before judging me, dine with me,
Then and only then will you find out why am like this,
Before you judge me walk in my shoes,
See the things i've seen,
Go through the hardships i've been through,
Then you can judge me.
I might be unworthy,a misfit, the lost sheep and indecent,
But one thing i know,through what i've been through,
My mindset will raise someone's child.
So judge me not for you ain't full of perfectia.
PoetIgweee
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