chalcedony
a symbol of strength
revered by seventh daughters of seventh daughters
green with streaks of red
looks a bit like slate with blood stains
A consortium for interplanetary exploration has conducted
the first ever mining operation in Mars, using robotic
automation that unearthed many valuable minerals and
uncommon elements from beneath the red regolith.
Scientists are not yet sure if for future Martian
colonization and mining activities they have to breed
an AI race.
We were at the story-changing funeral
Of the Genocide-implicated General:
A drunk and mourners were all served mineral!
In the paid tributes linked with the ethereal,
Though his life had stressed pleasures ephemeral:
An ever-pitied sufferer of the venereal,
As a dying corporal
Surviving on referral
“Then, this is his repentance in grave
Or restrictions of mourners like a slave!”
“Please, if there isn’t any safe alcohol,
Ready I am for harsh ethanol…
In this rubbishy funeral of an accursed general
To drink not many but several.
Collectable gem
fortifies me with power
my hand extension.
Antique fountain pen
a staff spilling poetry
full of liquid gold.
Your brown eyes penetrate my skin
like healing sea mineral mud,
blanketing wide and deep within,
enough to purify my blood.
Pouring as an endorphic blush,
rising just like a sauna's heat,
within this purifying flush,
I'm given a renewed heartbeat.
10/31/19
Quartz Coloring Our World with Beauty
Herkimer diamonds
Amethyst, rose, agate,
One of the most well known
Minerals on earth, occurring in every locale
Quartz countertops
Quartz crystals
Quartz geode
Smoky,
Yellow
Pink,
Quartz
Resistant to heat
Glorifying our rock hunting adventures
Coloring our world with beauty
Quartz, fantastic gift from God
For her backsplash style, I used cobalt tile.
Her sapphire eyes bold cast me away cold.
My heart dipped right to benitoite night.
Hot to drown in brew and sad boleite blues.
Yet I put on my new turquoise suede shoes.
My topaz car I drove to Rockies far
There to glorify in azurite sky
And lakes nearby of lapis lazuli.
I waited with tunes a celestine moon.
At dawn, cyanite jays curst me away.
And my sapphire blues at last I did lose.
At the rock and mineral show, I wasn’t going to buy anything.
Just look.
Until I saw the unusual blue stone in a silver ring.
You know me.
I bought it.
Two hours into wearing it, I looked down to admire the stone,
But it was gone.
The ring did not have a hole or a cavity or anything, just a raised top like a shelf.
I looked around on the floor and saw a tiny piece of white paper shaped like
My stone.
I flipped it over.
My shiny blue stone was a PHOTOGRAPH of a shiny blue stone, which
Had been glued onto the tall shank of my ring.
I stuck it on with Super Glue.
I still wear this ring with the unusual blue stone, and I get many compliments also.
Whether or not I share the secret, depends on how well I like you.
Don"t
On the fourth
day of summer
The Holy Ghost led
me
to a prayer and meditation
grotto
in Mineral behind JOHN's
church
near the RR track
Most lovely place
Summer school has
already begun
I AM
A Teacher
I Pray
in tongues
What is wrong with that
They arrested me for that
Don't ask
stupid questions.
People most got corrupted
I trust few
anymore.
forgive them DAH they know
not what they do.
Mineral Baths Saratoga Springs NY
She covers her private
parts at the bath house.
Mineral water fills a tub,
centuries old.
She feels cold until
an old Women hands
her heated sheets...
now, her skin covered.
Brought her clips to lift
her auburn hair.
The sheets cooled as the
tub, now filled.
A stray cat
peers into the window...
purrs, kissing glass.
The old Women
removes the sheet, takes
the hand of a young lady
as she carefully
steps into aged porcelain.
Tiny bubbles
surround her skin.
A soft pillow for her head...
Now, relax. . . she tells herself,
dreaming of the
cat kissing glass. . .
alone, at last.
Nancy Duci Denofio
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