Long Thomas edison Poems

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   This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts. 
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A  is for Anton van Leeuwenhoek- in his simple  microscope made him well-known,
B is for Benjamin Franklin who invented  the electricity  from the flow of electrons.

C is for Curie, Marie -a...

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Racism. Trying to prove ones skin tone or ethnicity is superior to another’s. 

Why we let a such word control society is beyond the human brain. 
Why it is unfathomable to process we are all...

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I sit at the end of your final stroll
Setting you free is my only goal

At the end of your life so tired and beat
I quietly offer, “Please take a seat”

I suddenly notice as you’re strapped...

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I left out riding my bike down 
first street over looking the 
wildly calm river artist's lined 
bicentennial entrance way where 
Thomas Edison Rockefeller
 
and Ford feasted on clams 
my mind wandered about 
the timing...

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An idea wrapped up in a dream, 
it will never work, don't even try. 
Another wacky out there scheme, 
better to let it lay and die. 

If that were the attitude taken, 
by those great...

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Naysayers

You know those people whom
Always have something negative to say, 
Got you believing you set your hopes too high. 
I could care less about the things you say, 
The only real voice that affects me
Is...

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Winking on before the stars
These little airborne lamps
Endowed my neighbourhood
As my wide grey eyes feel good

I must stop and stare
As electric insects appear
No one can take this view from me
As long as my eyes can...

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Eureka of Archimedes was part of his daydream,
Thomas Edison nurtured his dream in bright light like gleam;
Could sleep ever overwhelm Alexander Graham Bell,
Till he heard the noise from the other and fell in a spell...?

George...

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Sometimes late at night as we succumb to sleep
We greet creative thoughts beyond those of counting sheep

It’s said Thomas Edison held coins in his hands
That clanged into a bucket noisily as planned

Stirring, he was intrigued...

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I am the war of  
1812. 
   I am Standard Oil  
Dripping with wealth. 

   I am Edgar Allen Poe 
And Beethoven. 
   I am the first...

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Eureka - a love song Tanka series
~ art by Edward Burne-Jones ~

It's a fair question:
as you smile that smile, you ask
how much I love you…
"You are constant as the sun
   ...and I am...

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He is deemed least likely to succeed in kindergarten
Cannot follow in a line, is horrible at being redundant
Never fits in with the rest of the cookie dough
Distorted immediately after being cut into a circle
He cannot...

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as I am here this warm evening
pressing the microphone button 
on my smart phone 
John Quincy Adams sits beside me 
at his congressional desk 
while Thomas Edison is sitting nearby
at a bench in Menlo Park...

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Rare hidden gem in Florida
Home to Thomas Edison,
Harvey Firestone; Henry Ford
America hidden blessing
Golden history landmark Royal Palm Hotel
Where the rich and famous relax
Palm trees sway proudly on Edison Ave
Caloosahatchee River 
Where you can go to...

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Thomas Edison invented the light bulb
To shed light in the darkness, you know
Henry Ford invented the vehicle
So that humans could go, go, go.

Christopher Columbus sailed over the ocean
Just so he could be free
None of these...

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Sometimes I just go crazy
Trying to give my kid his medicine
You have to be some kind of genius
You know, like Thomas Edison?

And I've tried almost everything
From the airplane to the train
But he always sees it...

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Nikola Tesla came to America in the 1880's to work with Thomas Edison,
a lot of his brilliant ideas getting patented by others who had a bank run,
today being the anniversary of his dying poor in...

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Eye for an eye
Me shall remain awake all night for you till I catch zzzs
I perceive a glint coming from thy thigh
Such fairness, wonder what that is
Thou art pulling me from an apple tree
Like gravity...

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Thomas Edison is an evil man.
There’s too much on his plate.

They hold these truths to be self evident.
Man is the measure of all things.

The material in the river has changed.
They want simple behavior and are...

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Quote By My Dad  "A quitter never wins and a winner never quits." 

My dad did not teach me much,
the few things he did have been priceless.
He never would let me give up,
no matter how...

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