In the beginning, there were microbes
Once upon a time later
Some collectively came together
Becoming plants and animals
But even after billions of years of evolution
Most still remain as microbes free from collectives
Even to this day, microbes are Earth’s dominate lifeform
Why do you think that is?
For millennia they remained invisible
Hidden from sight
It’s not until recently
With the invention of the microscope
They’ve been discovered and exposed
To scientific scrutiny and medical bloodwork routines
To us, the world is big, but for them, it’s 10,000 times bigger
Giving them plenty of small places to hide
And hold secret meetings
About, who knows what
Only the Microbial Illuminati knows,
If they even exist.
I hear and present the prayer of Sarah and Tobie,
Through any sorrow before Love,
They ask the same from my God,
He gives me the force,
I stop the demon,
Any evil may not touch the conception of this daughter,
The spring of paradise above,
Too in my wings of the doctor,
In Robin Hood's arrows,
Air interceptor against any seduction and falsehood,
microbes, and dwarfs,
Near knight Ivanhoe Precursor,
Raphael and Michael soldiers,
Virgins of virtues betrothed,
A Samaritan with vine and oil,
I stay like the priest, the Ark of Love in Glory,
Mary's apparition with cherubim Michael and Gabriel along,
She is this Daughter and Mother,
Sabbath alive of the nation of servants of the Lord,
Like Seraphim from the town of Sarov,
I'm on my knees, young men and boy,
And this outlaw in the right on the cross,
But by the time of my accomplished mission - say it to Herod,
To Asmodeus fox in this very sick world,
And Job again talks,
Continuing his lofty story,
With two cheeks only.
We peer through glass and radio hum,
At planets circling distant suns—
Seeking whispers, spectral crumbs,
Hints that life—like ours—has spun.
A biomarker is no shout,
No waving hand across the void—
It’s methane mixed with oxygen’s pout,
Patterns nature’s never toyed.
It’s pigment caught in photon’s snare,
Or breath of microbes long decayed—
It’s symmetry that shouldn’t be there,
A fingerprint the cosmos made.
We measure starlight split in bands,
Each color line—a cosmic clue,
Revealing chemistry’s subtle hands,
Painting life in gases’ hue.
So when you hear of “signs of life,”
It’s not green men or flying cars—
It’s carbon’s dance, with nitrogen rife,
A love affair beneath the stars.
And maybe—somewhere far, unseen—
A creature lifts its eyes like ours,
And wonders if its skies might mean
That we are their biomarkers.
The strongest flour
The oil, the yeast
Combined in love
Before the feast
Salt
From Celtic shores afar
With waters warmed
The ideal spar
For microbes'
Fertive final frenzy
The rising feeds
Much foodstuff envy
More patience
As to final hours
The mixture blooms
While hope devours
The prospect of
Eternal life
Once oven baked
With heat and strife
To crusty beauty
Rich and soft
The father proud
To hold aloft
Before
Serrated sacrifice
To eager lips
From buttered knife
A gift from God
This golden leaven
Food for the soul
A slice of heaven
A lunar cave sheilded them
from the horrors of radation
there the Moondogs
honed there skills and became
revered by the challenges of nature.
Martain Microbes and
Titan Sulfurnites
the Crystals of a space time Contentioum
filled the area were
the Magnif One
Duplicater wuld build
the first ever Home World vessel
to store the inhabitants of Earth.
Earth a World far, far away!
Earth, there a twinkle in the galaxy.
Earth a place destined t jear the tales
of these Astromic explorors.
Earth there beyond the
the hemishere of the Moon, Mars and the Earth like
moon of Saturn!
They were astronuants in space when
earth was conquered by 55 Cancri e a distant planet in Space!
frustrations and stressful events that gave way
to the spaceship docked above earth.
The camera show
were the astronauts on the moon, Mars and Titan
rallied to join together
and spearhead the
effects to reconcour earth.
The far, far planet earth home to these
earthings.
A lake,
landmark to
locate easily
my nest like
home, a center
to ever widening
concentric city,
lies without life,
no fishes, no ducks,
no mosquitoes,
not even microbes
exist within.
Like a frozen body
intact, lake is
kept as a
keep-sake, for
there will be no
other places to
dump such waste;
chemicals flowing
from a few hundred
factories, slush, sewage,
garbage reaches her
in hushed silence.
When people
flock to see
with curious
eyes the fire
and froth issuing
from the lake,
taking pictures,
striking unison
notes-aw’s, wow’s,
as if it is all
of the lake’s doing,
my ears hurt-ache-burn.
I see a crow
sitting on
electric pole
cocking its head,
looking restlessly
at people or
mourning the
death of lake,
I can’t say, but,
with as expressionless
face as that of the crow
I turn with heavy steps,
ruffled, helpless,
towards my home.
Microbes surround us
too tiny to see
On ocean floors
fish thrive incredibly
Out in the cosmos
galaxies unending
Past the ‘Great Beyond’
Time’s even bending
‘Course, our kids keep saying
“Nowhere to go, nothing to do”
So tonight I told them
“Here’s what for you"
A microscope for
the ‘miniverse’ you can’t ignore
A telescope for
the 'maxiverse' you’ll want to explore
Marvel at the lives of the infinitesimal
~ Observe an exoplanet festival
The germs and the bugs and the viruses
Each of them fancied their chances
The microbes and pathogens all had a go
At giving me evil-eye glances
My bones they were aching, my temperature baking
And then there were chills that would see me a shaking
I thought I might rattle with pills I was taking
And if I dared speak then my larynx was quaking
But you know and I know that ‘man flu’ is worse
Than anything ladies might lay down in verse
I knew this was true as I took to my bed
While my wife with her ‘girl flu’ was clearing the shed
Her version of flu didn’t cause her to moan
When cleaning the kitchen, not one stifled groan
And even the vacuum, when she cleaned the floors
Did not make her wince, so she finished her chores
But I am a man and a fighter at heart
Against all bugs I’ll be the winner
I said to my wife you should have a lie down…
As soon as you’ve finished the dinner.
Well…
I’m better but hungry, I’m feeling half starved
In fact I could eat a large horse
I got bugs that gave me an appetite halved
But now they’ve got me a divorce
Flora and fauna of birds, beasts, microbes, soils, atmospheres,
Should only these contribute to the forest components?
Height and densities of trees and plants, and their thriving years...
Aren't silver, gold, diamonds, and gems woodland endowments?
Who cares much for herbs and shrubs where tiny insects abide?
Flies, bees, frogs, rodents, bats, and rats playfully hide and seek.
Ants, crickets, grasshoppers, centipedes, and millipedes hide
Behind grass, leaves, and mud to escape threats as they are weak.
With animals, vegetation, and evergreen landscapes
Air to breathe, food, medicines, wood, and fodder they provide
Forests reduce pollutants in air, water, sound, and space.
Protect humans from floods, droughts, soil erosion, and landslides.
Though like a student in primary school, I might recite
Abiding midst a forest is a venturous delight.
Living love
brings comfortable
pleasure in the lives
of some folks
who open their hearts.
Some people
always fail to live
love as they can not
let it terminate
some microbes
into their hearts.
August 17/2023
The tiniest microbes do the greatest harm
some with spindly legs
some with toothpick arms
They fell powerlifting champions
take down mighty oaks
Fools dismiss 'germs' as a hoax
Wise men aware they might croak
A dog's job is to foes terrify,
Actors of scary films horrify,
The police a rogue identify,
Insurance firms one indemnify...
Science would laymen's claims verify,
Panels rigged elections nullify,
Microscopes to microbes magnify,
Deodorants to bad air purify.
Witnesses in courts to testify,
A counsel to trial judge mollify,
Big stereos to music amplify;
Flowers one's surroundings beautify...
The Angels Lord God glorify,
Nudists the public mortify!
Confounding Paradox
Are there exoplanets evolving, terrains for the living?
Living forms upon rivers, microbes drifting in the air?
Do they breathe oxygen, a unique concoction of gen?
Primeval human questions borne out of conceit unveil apprehensive curiosity
Antiquated they must be encapsulated inside the boundaries of mortal frailty
Beings are ephemeral and aged galaxies yield their jewels in a fiery embrace
Breaking then merging with brilliant mystical islands in the vastness of space
Life propitiously ubiquitous weave throughout obscured mazes encompassing
The most confounding paradox is existence and to probing souls enlightening
Penned: 4:17 P.M.
10/27/2016
Aboard cruise liner:
Vision of the Seas
Argostoli, Greece
Trees and flowers burst into life,
old and forgotten is winters strife,
buzzing little insects spring into motion,
a moving, writhing, living ocean,
fungi and microbes cycle it back,
water, wind, fire and earth,
life in full whack.
BEACHCOMBER
You comb the beaches
Detailed to the inches
At least you might be fortunate
To get even a wanton mate
Your line you carry
You look like one in hurry
But your eyes are sharp
Ready to the unlucky one map
The bait is appetizing
Drooping with mock rejoicing
But microbes it sports
Found in promiscuous ports
But sailors on it fall
And purge their worries -- all
After paying the toll
Then you automatically smoke them over the rack
With ss behind your bare back
You examine your levy
And say, They die of envy
Your heart is never heavy
But your speech is wavy
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