about 25k of DNA
that's all we got
for expressions to say
but more than a lot
adenine and cytosine,
long to interlace,
guanine and thymine
to make a living base
all stewed in nucleotides
helixed turns so linked
is what makes life's ride
to all organisms distinct
finned salmon fishes
grizzlies and finches
appointed life's wishes
for nature, it's a cinch
too, flies and butterflies
anaconda's and darter snails
life's supplies in disguise
diversity of crittered tales
it's puzzling to piece
just how life can do it
with near-infinite increase
of its proteined tool kit
switched on proteins
morph winged extremities
to myriad of in-betweens
and other of life's remedies
go for it, life says
make a smash, make a mistake
live it to the hilt
all ways alive, for life's sake
© Goode Guy 2011-12-22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncoding_DNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene
You float with buoyant energy
on an ethereal waft of creation
too boisterous for my heart to
ignore as it patters in longing.
The pulse of the Earth reverberates
in your every kindly action
like a tuning fork holding the divine
harmonious in orbit beside me.
A Mona Lisa smile graces with pungency
sweet and sorrowful, electrified
by my arrow drawn steady,
not stealthy in purpose, but truthful in light
resplendent, my super nova blazing
the heavens with a soulful yawp
vast enough to quake the never void
between planet and star, hope and death.
My cells churn magnetic in your presence
as the prayers of nucleotides and collisions
hail the magnificence of this moment
cherished beyond the tremors of wondrous birth.
Up the slope, I climb the vista
to elevate my placid view.
Beneath my feet, the bed soil sighs
while dropping beads of morning dew.
At the summit, my breath charging,
I bask in such a dimpled shore:
each little dot, a soul profound
shooting like prisms from their core.
Shifting my glance to search behind,
markers in stone shout from the ground.
Stratagems feed nucleotides
to snuff the joy of life we've found.