Long Oxidation Poems

Through the hills within the woods of a mountain's slithering slopes,
A road winds its way, on which rides a car driven by a misanthrope. 

Plucking from his pocket a pack of poison sticks with one...

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Wine is a mocker, strong drink
is raging: and whosoever is
deceived thereby is not wise
Prov. 20:1

Darkened oxidation
		 changing personality
Liquid fermentation
	altering perception of reality
Look long into the bottle,
you see fire in the water
It burns you as you...

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   Exotic Electrons  
Title: Exotic electrons

In the house of atom,
Electron resting at its bottom.
Eager  to pop up and down,
Like a clown.

In the discharge tube, it took its birth,
Photon too assisted it...

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Written: October 4th 2023
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An untapped jewel in a secluded nook.
A home down with treasures to brook
It is a phony ossuary, hence the walls droop.
Gazebo-grinning goofs giggle in a group.

Once a majestic home, a sign of...

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I comprehend the days when rays do shine and Ra does set 
When inner soul and façade connect, 24 hours in one day gave me breathe, that’s 1,440 
seconds closer to death rather than oxygen...

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Green Tea


Oh what joy it seems to me
Drinking my early morning tea.

The healthiest beverage on the globe
Cures many diseases I've been told.

Lemon juice in hot tea cures and prevents cancer I hear.
Drink for three months,...

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Like many heroes of mysterious Marvel Comics, 
Doctor Stephen Vincent Strange is a bolt of magic mix;
Spells of supernatural kinds he works, abundantly,
Crimsons, crystals, ice, rings, chains - in constant redundancy...!

Pile of pure pulverization and...

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When I was traveling through a wood
I met the color Orange
Laid out before me, long lost kin
Less on top, more so within 
She was the edges and the movement
She was the still frames and the...

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2/24/16


Made my own observations
While following through on obligations
Certain materials came into contact with the process of oxidation
As I always respected conservation
Unfortunatley the same could not be said for all occupations
And methods of operation
Realize this bit...

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Written, March 24, 2025
For Contest,  Your Choice E sponsor, Brian Strand

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        sculpting lullabies
 cradling
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Copper metal is a valuable wartime commodity.
Something new was needed for the cent in 1943.
A strange composition the United States Mint would reveal.
Lincoln’s profile appeared on a coin made of steel.
It was plated with zinc...

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Give me your fears and hope,
the golden chains of your obsession
Let me vow bind your hidden hand past 
to the leg of your uncertain present
Have the angst choices, which twine your future,
be your gilded, Lazarus...

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This chain of rusted iron and fallen tears is strung together,
forged of poorly tempered links,
cast into the water untimely, 
the choices called to account.

There is no jury for decision,
no panel for propriety or loyalty,
and that...

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Rusted and Busted Contest
Sponsor: Casarah Nance

BRONZE BEAUTY


Blighted inside the eyes of the ones who are blind
Rusted and marred but remarkable in my mind
Obliterated beyond repair, but extreme charm I find
No one can see the potential...

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We were calculating theoretical yields on chemcollective
and somehow we ended up dancing to ”go left.”

We were finding oxidation numbers on labster
but somehow we started laughing.

We were balancing chemical equations on PhET
but now we’re singing “World...

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On Mars In Mars

Volcano hollowed sound, echoes in Olympus Mons
Thin atmosphere cratered in ancient crevasses
Storms last three hundred years or more
Etch ancient lines red iron oxidation 
Rocks move from one place to another
As the only...

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Memories lay in the tall grasses
 hidden from street view,
  statues for the wandering ants.
Forgotten possessions 
 in the graveyard of a worn estate
  where families once played.
The house with wearing wood
 is...

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The sky falling, crumpled beneath a russet cloud, 
shrouded by shadows swaying with the dusty flow of gases.
Blackest darkness without promised whispered rays of sunlight,
absent of visible light shifting, fading into nothingness.
The surface crackling, popped...

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Chemical can be detected in urine and serum using gas chromatography nitrogen phosphorus detection(GC-NPD) and gas chromatography mass spectrometry techniques(GC/MS).Poison is detected in food and environmental samples through capillary electrophoresis(MEKCS) with UV-detection after solid phase...

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the tether frays that once held strong
from the days and nights of being alone
like a shooting star 'cross the evening sky
flashing brilliantly before it dies
blackness fills its spot

given permission you entered inside
shaking up everything I...

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