Nitrate Poems

Incarnation

Having been so long untouched,
I’d become a child beyond touch
and unclean.

So, when suffocatingly
roused from a nightmare of death
to unbreathable silence
in an oxygen tent, I cried

afraid of dying alone.

From somewhere
        (outside of all darkness)
you appeared
	(starched-pinafored and perfumed
	 a student nurse working nights
	 after classes)
bringer of light
restorer of air
redeemer.

At your spell, cool air whispered 
around us, and you held me 
despite my uncleanness
	(and I felt
		your heart
			       beating).

My tears eased a path for breath,
your fingers gentled my face,
and I fell back into sleep
at peace.

I have forgotten your name
but I remember your touch
and the silver nitrate stain
on your hand, a sky blue.

If I believe in Mercy
it’s only because of this:

You fearlessly touched one
whom others would not
and if God has a face
it is yours.

mad as a hatter

Mad as a hatter is a phrase that came naturally about
In the eighteen hundreds hatmakers were going insane
Using mercuric nitrate, which removed skin from pelts
A poison that had them acting funny, going postal
Another phrase that came along much later
In deference to postal workers who went insane
From the mundane repetitiveness of their jobs.

Nickle plated oboes

Red Slime: must you disguise your worth
aren't you treasure
which Mica and quarts
sand and gold
Aren't you tresure
that a torch should solitify
you into a crystalized anomlly
aren't as much tresure as gold itself
nitrate and phosfate
the seperation of a wayer soaked claim
Mica Schits introduced me to
the Grayish Gold ore one desires
Ultramatic, tuff the stones of a sandy
panning area
Feldspar! Feldspar and Garnet!
then were are your tresures

Mr. Mica Schits Feldspar
Ore Miss
Mica Schits Feldspar

Nettle

Soup and greens,beer and tea
buttlerfly young just love me,
aphid trap and liquid feed
ladybird heaven,yes indeed!
I love phosphate & nitrate soil
such versatility reduces toil,
my leaves quicken the compost
all this for free,at no cost!

Okay,okay,yes I sting

Smart Child and Imagination

Smart child can imagine
The obvious wide margin
Between Whore and Virgin,
The young and the Ageing,
Main Language and Pidgin
Birds of Prey and Pigeon 
Human Heart and Engine
Detention and Prison
An Excuse and Reason
A Period and Peason
Oxide and Oxygen
Nitrate and Nitrogen
The Lord God and Satan
David and Jonathan
The Sweet and The Sour
A Grave and it's Flower

Good imagination
Beats intimidation.

8atha

Ammonium Nitrate
Acetone Peroxide
Butane
Dynamite
Erythritol Tetranitrate
Gunpowder
Lead Styphnate
Trinitrotoluene
8atha 8atha 8atha.

Black Powder Recipe

A dandy simple homemade mixture
Made in my grandma’s kitchen sink.
Potassium nitrate, a staple fixture
Oh, you and yours use charcoal? Wink! Wink!
Yes, it is legal on my own property.
Come on out, and watch me blow up a tree.


Written:  11-07-2018                         Contest: Black Powder
                                                        Sponsor: Anthony Slausen

Photo In Monochrome

Behind frosted glass

            Visions of a silver moon

                              Traces of nitrate




18/06/2017.

The Future Starts Here

The innocence is transfusing
and overturning 
the goat skin drums
children of the mills,
children of the junkyard,
alone, 
and savaging
and we keep filling them with
mercury, nitrate, espestice, baby bombs
blasted out of their shaved heads
scared,
and foraging

Just Us

Suppose there is no life in space, just us. And we inhabit Mars,
air condition Venus. Hold family barbecues, national holidays
on Mercury. Fly to Jupiter for spas of ammonium nitrate.
And go farther afield in the galaxy and on to other galaxies
leaving behind map-faced men, crow-like women and open gates.

Who will be the first-born human on the moon? News
from the moon colony! And so on, on every planet where
we've visited and established dusty villages or vast cities
over thousands of centuries. Then, will we not have somewhere,
somehow, under some sun's rays become another species?

Common Melody

Balcony moods
Morning offering;
Song of bird duo


By the yard edge
Bird frolic twitter;
A cheery quartet


Song fills dawn
Sunlight slants;
Window view sparkles


Last night's rain
Wet grounds betray;
Uneven footsteps traced


Joy after sorrow
Traces of old grief;
Ushered out abruptly


Old sepia memories
Silver nitrate etchings;
Old time photography


Haunting faces preside
Mother and father;
Yesterday's courtesy


Today flings
Doors wide open;
Strangers in paradise


Prayers on altars
Everywhere we go;
Living burying the dead


Can you hear
Sounds of old strains;
Voices calling in echoes


This life we live
Takes sterner stuff;
Hope feeds effort


Do you notice
A common melody;
Swirling time after time


Mundane routines
Calls time for after shocks;
Trauma feeds norm


When I listen
Do I hear
Sounds in the silence


Trip to market
Buy and sell;
Barter for things


Hate is fear exposed
Let love attend trade;
Poverty lives painful hatred


Look up and see
Dawn in a flash;
Insight reveals truth


Leon Enriquez
15 July 2014
Singapore

November Can Be So Rude

What a dreary midnight November 
Nitrate toxicity this New York City
It should never have happened

Our first winter snow, what a low blow
Congestion, Cough, Runny Nose, Sore Throat
Bengay , Dayquil and Nightquil 

Night come early
The dawn cometh late
Ice on the dash board
And the Mailman always late

No wood in the furnace
No white throated sparrow to sing a song
The earth is constantly shifting. “My God How long
To stressed out to sleep
Oh how I love my cup of 
Soothing Ginger tea

Why must we suffer?

Happy Anniversary, Gaza

will the Palestinian children of Gaza
who get sicker by the day
from drinking the polluted water
(caused by the Israeli government’s 
Operation Cast Lead 2008-2009
bombing of Gaza, which obliterated 
the sewage system there, subsequently
leaking poisonous anemia & cancer-
causing nitrate levels into the water
system, with a blockade still running
that keeps the people of Gaza from
having any access to clean water)
remember,
if they live to do so,
the FREE ELECTION in 2006
when Hamas was brought into the
government there,
making both Israel & it’s big brother
(whose attempt at overthrowing Hamas
failed)
just downright pissy?

will the Palestinian children of Gaza
who get sicker by the day,
remember the temper tantrums thrown
by big brother empire & its little arms
warehouse in the middle east
just because they didn’t get what they 
wanted
(violating international law--- 
nothing new to either of them---
wrapping themselves around the tiny 
strip of land in order to further strangle 
the Palestinian people trying desperately
to survive there)?

how could they forget.

Hip Hop

i spit fire like a torcher/
i grew up into a Mc schorcher/
vile dialect wreck you to the corner/
world leaders band together border/
me from me showing im a performer/
is sick ritualistic Horror/
i mutilate anyone who is poorer/
upside down youll never been soorer/
find your wife cut her up and store her/
ammoniun nitrate makes a nice forcer/
hello the dr is here time for toutura/
ill find out right now if your a morna/
i was having fun till i accidently tore ya/
oh u see me? did you see my paw?/
im a monster and i love my meat bloody and raw/
with contraptions right out of saw ill show you habitual law/

Contagious Hate

How much hate can a terrorist create?
Truck loads for those who decided my mate Deans fate
The date 12th of the 10th 2002
Two ammonium nitrate bombs blew
It was an attack by a pack of rats
Murdering my mate on holiday with the Kingsley Cats
Celebrating a grand final victory by partying in Bali 
Why did it have to be?

Dam Abu Bakar Bashir, Amrozi and the rest of Jamal Islamia
These cowards intentions were clear and severe 
To inflict fear on westerners and to kill Aussies just having a beer
They want to plunder 
Unless they kill all of us there only gonna make us stronger the hatred can't go on any longer
Those had no cause or any remorse for using force to fight their so called "holy wars"
Which were said to be based on their religious souce
At the same time breaking their religious laws
No one should have a problem with any race colour or religion
Only a problem with any murdering individual that are in them
Weather it be Hindu, Muslim, Cathlic or Christen, black or white is no justification for a fight

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