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Glowing Woman

...She didn't shatter the glass ceilings,
she shattered the sky
and stars fell in her lap.
They barred her from science clubs
but she built her own constellations.

She arrived in Paris hungry for...

Categories: marie curie, girl, growing up,
Form: Free verse

The Fire Within: Tales of Lifelong Passion

...In the depths of Van Gogh's starry night,
A passion burned, and a soul took flight.
Colours swirled in a cosmic dance,
His paintbrush, his fervent romance.

Michelangelo with marble white,
Carv...

Categories: marie curie, appreciation, endurance, inspirational, passion,
Form: Bio

Five Great Chemists

...Robert Boyle 
First latter-day chemist Robert Boyle,
never immune to laboratory toil,
practical laws on volume and pressure,
inherited as a science world treasure

Svante Arrhenius 
The bright...

Categories: marie curie, birth, blessing, care, celebration,
Form: Clerihew

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Where Would We Be

...The contributions of women are sometimes overlooked
 But where would we be without the contributions of Katherine Johnson
 In the 60's she did finely tune
 The mathematical calculations that sent ...

Categories: marie curie, science, women,
Form: Ode

Woman, the Lighted Candle

...Women of the world, my tribute to you!
                        You are the mother, you are the wife,
                      You are the daughter, you are the sister! 
                   you are the...

Categories: marie curie, inspiration, women,
Form: Ode

Monoku Monday - Apr 2021

..."Some Grave Humor for Monday Mourning"   Posted 5 Apr 2021
take note: if you don't go to your friend's funerals      they won't go to yours

some think our cemetery is nice...

Categories: marie curie, grave, humor,
Form: Monoku

Cladestine

...THE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.

Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left ...

Categories: marie curie, corruption, death of a
Form: Prose Poetry

Sinistrality

...Tonight, I want to say something wonderful
For the left-handed people who can adapt
to a world full of left-sided thinkers. The ones

who can navigate with all the specially opposed tools,
like ...

Categories: marie curie, celebration, inspiration, meaningful,
Form: Ode

Curiosities

...Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
          Marie Curie

Everything beyond death is to become loved.
We are only to be ego-identity stood under
as also eco-seated ov...

Categories: marie curie, death, fear, health, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Born To Live-Difficult To Conquer

...The birth place of world war II
after an invasion void of any declaration.
Stamps on history’s book by feminine hands
to ascertain the first death sentence of the same human disaster.
A t...

Categories: marie curie, community, education, environment, history,
Form: Ode

Being First Isn'T Always Best

...Being First Isn't Always Best

By Elton Camp

Unkind words the winner may choose
“Second place only means to lose.”

So many things are cast as a race
Be first, or it’s scorn that you face

Who was s...

Categories: marie curie, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Marie Curie - a Clerihew

...Marie Curie, the radiant,
In wits and style above the gradient.
Declared she that wigs would be "in"
Along with glowing skin....

Categories: marie curie, history, science,
Form: Clerihew

Addressing Inequity

...History books are filled with men’s escapades
Are women’s accomplishments seen as charades?

Joan of Arc had visions of saints leading her
to save France from Britain’s tyrannical cur.

Rosa Parks re...

Categories: marie curie, history, people, women, women,
Form: Rhyme