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 men to the moon
Marie Curie was excellent in physics and chemistry
She discovered two new elements
And won the Nobel price twice
For her brilliance and sacrifice
Elizabeth G. Anderson was the first female doctor in England
A historic feat in any land
She paved the way for the women that followed
And was also England's first female mayor
The molecular structure of DNA, RNA, and viruses
was discovered by British chemist Rosalind Franklin
She made great contributions in the science
Her vital contributions can never be denied
We honor all these women for the contributions they made
And they deserve the highest accolades
3-29-2022
TRIBUTE TO WOMEN Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Beata Agustin
Categories:
rna, science, women,
Form: Ode
There may be a mirror universe
in which time runs backwards
Hawkins hosts dinner for time travelers
who eat dark matter for dessert
Thousands of Endurances think
critical thinking was just spotted on Mars
where lonely elephants seek scientists
Hawkins finds Planet 9 in a black hole
There may be an information paradox
where elephants eat dark matter
Planet Nine still missing
time runs backward while running out of time
Thousands of acres continue to burn
there may be a paradoxical universe
Planet Nine attacked by RNA
elephants create scientists
Categories:
rna, humorous, science, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Trying to Stop COVID-19 pandemic by vaccination
So far is the biggest joke made by medical doctors
As the virus is to be replicated using RdRp
A RNA replicase can't repair replication errors
Different viruses are thus being made each time
They escape Potentially from our body care
The so-called population immunity barriers tried
Obviously have turned to be the doctors' wishful ideas
Categories:
rna, sympathy,
Form: Verse
Alas, those days are gone! So long Argentina!
Deprived by vaccine law! Must do or be fool-dead!
Viral fear so rapid, the gene-techs’ in fast rev
Ending the long debate, big pharm governs mandates!
No talk of tried and true, gene-play is in fashion
Though it has been decades, with research showing naught
Usurping panic won, in careful thought’s adieu
RNA induction, into cells muscular
Everyone producing, proteins of a microbe!
Spike me with this logic, for I’ll become hostess
Stranger no more to me, I make the antigens!
Of nucleic acid shots, none are like polio…
Now the scientific fad’s gene manipulation
Even in infant phase, unready for the stage!
(12/21/2021: Meridian 342 Bethel Island)
Categories:
rna, angst,
Form: Alexandrine
i am a copy
of a copy
of a copy
screaming, originality!
a functional fallacy
that we are created as
individuals
when really we are
predetermined
by DNA
Don’t tell me what to do!
Nothing defines who I am!
Aside from you existing in half of me
still, I fail to understand
the complexities that
weave us together
if I am just a copy
how can I be better?
i want to be a rainbow fish
with something shiny
and unique to give
follow the advice of the wise
octopus and live so
freely like the other fish
yet, I worry I will always be
a shark
lurking in dark waters
the terror of the sea
giving birth to copies
of copies
of copies
of me
the residue left behind
Ribs in a tide
Nudging at my spine
Answering for questions
these ghosts have left behind
a message from a former me
thrice i've now denied
the existence of the copy
her body left behind
Categories:
rna, metaphor, poems, poetry, science,
Form: Free verse
To touch
can be to give life.
Michelangelo
To feel
can become receiving life
health
spirited wealth
empowering depth
co-invested width.
To physically touch
can grow toward spiritual
bilateral feelings,
co-passionate
co-empathic
co-operative
co-invested,
ego/eco-logical
viral and metaphysically benign.
To touch fractal DNA/RNA-inspired nature
may also feel seasonally expiring divinity,
ecologically created,
theologically creatured.
To healthy touch
and compassionately feel
can be to give spiritual life
and take away natural death
for embodied now,
from well-minded here.
Categories:
rna, care, deep, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
HAIBUN
You are electron microscopic size, but you possess infinitesimal power. Just a single strand of encapsulated RNA, yet you and your brothers SARS and MERS can sicken and kill more complex life.
Covid-19, virion unseen
Bring humans to their knees
Cowering and trembling
You spring up suddenly from nowhere and spread like fire in a parched forest. Devastating stock markets, stopping sports teams, halting concerts and forbidding gatherings over 250 souls. Quarantines of ships and planes. People greedily grasping, fighting and clawing for the important things in life: toilet paper, masks, cleaning supplies, paper towels.
A boon to corporations
Johnson and Johnson, Proctor and Gamble
Secretly happy you are around.
World wide you spread, showing no regard for race, boundaries or politics.
Italians, Iranians, Chinese,
Americans, Norwegians,
Japanese, Brazilians
The world caught unprepared. Scientists scrambling to develop a vaccine. All will breathe a sigh of relief when you cease your rampage. That is until you return, mutated, the same but different and we start all over again.
Categories:
rna, environment,
Form: Haibun
We are ecological science
and con-science
and unconsciousness.
We are story
and egological storyteller
and unknown
unheard
unseen.
Earth's humane act
and actor
and theologically transcendent stasis.
The dance
and dancer
and deaf
and frozen
The song
and singer
and silent
muted
anticipation
and anxiety.
The play
and player
and absent
uninvited
worker.
The thought
and thinker
and feeler
and numb.
The garden
and gardener
and consumer
and starving.
The Earth
and EarthTribe
and Ego
and Interdependent
DNA and RNA place-timed relatives,
matriarchal regenerators
regenerations
degenerations
ungenerated energy
entropy
untropy
anti-morphic
metamorphic
metaphor.
We are leftbrain either/or polynomial
rightbrain polyphonic
ecopolitically polypathic
positive trust energy democracies
health/wealth
ego/ecosystems
bilateral
bicameral
binomial nonzero-sum balancing
The science story,
and consciousness storytellers
and yet unconscious
unfelt
unknown,
The patriarchal history
of and for eco-matriarchal mystery.
Categories:
rna, analogy, birth, caregiving, creation,
Form: Political Verse
Do I politically understand you
YHWH
enough
to predict you enjoy your unpersonified ego
as partly successful predator-light
racing against mortality shared by all living species
because we are not yet godly resilient enough?
To meet your supreme judgmental win/lose zero-sum standards
of natural/spiritual dual/dark degeneration.
Have you deliberately,
with full intent,
designed living systems
to fall apart
beyond our internal capacity
to perpetually regenerate?
To fragment, eventually
degrade beyond autonomous recognition,
Like an autumn leaf
leaving ego's immortal goddess tree of life behind
to fertilize future god-souled roots
of nutritional RNA
healthy DNA
fertility of EarthMother's'
self-perpetuating regenerativity;
yet still squabbling,
on co-empathic occasion,
in-between whether the apostrophe
goes lefts or rights
of our original EarthSouls's.
Do I understand you
YHWH
regeneratively win/win inclusive enough?
For godly-humane compassion,
resilient interdependent yang-yin communication,
to live within hypothetical hyphen's'
spiraling temporal health and happiness roots
ZeroZen
nutritional multi-regenerational imagination.
Categories:
rna, destiny, health, humanity, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Have you forever come and gone
turning on your identity trail
to face a wall of YangFlame
dissonance?
Standing
and sitting
and sleeping
and Yang/Yin in-between
insideEgo and outsideEco known
inside as outgrowing
since ZeroZone Win secular seed
Won SacredBeginning
of bilateral BigBang Yang
recovering from LoseLose Zero
YinYin BiLateral Zone Time
This double-binding flame wall
aptic ashes in-between firestorms
your Ego identity loves WinComely
and sacred EcoBeLoved
of in-between Others
winning EarthTribe positivenergy,
AnimaMundi
Holy MatriarchalSpirit.
This dueling secularLeft-sacredRight wall
of co-redemptive Fire
between myself
and our ecojoy,
EarthTribe therapeutic shafts
of flame
restoring justice sunlight days
and peaceful starlit nights,
deducting DNA supremacy
as inducting RNA flowstreams,
nutritionally green
echoing off mineralized crystal rocks
harmonic revolving windfunnels
resonant thunderstorms of revolution
polypathic songs
of ringing newborn singing childhood
Imagining square dancers
of and for seasons
with lovely healthy reasons--
permaculturing operas.
Categories:
rna, birth, deep, destiny, health,
Form: Political Verse
To patronize,
repatriotize,
restore,
co-invest in:
To express positive WinWin attitude,
sacred gratitude,
through mutually cooperative investment
of healthy bilateral Time
past and future researched,
as wealthy sacred history of EarthSpace
SpaceTime ZeroZone Zen
Zero-notnot interest
in equivalent polypathic co-investment,
WinWin
ZeroSum NegEntropic,
right-brain sacred Left-wise/Right-elder ZeroZone,
HereYang-NowYin
Ego/EcoCentric Place,
in MatriarchalBorn EarthTribe.
To vulnerably and transparently matronize
EarthTribal healthy-wealth:
To vocationally transport
mutually cooperative transubstantiating communications
dialectal creolizations
of polynomial languages
Positive/Negative
and notnot in-between
Polyphonic TippingPoints
octave-doublefractal harmonics
5Dimensional binary spiraling
polypathic double-binary WinWin enculturations
Cooperative Yang InterPolitical secularity
with YinSquared IntraPersonal sacrality,
grace-filled DNA with RNA follow the light solidarity for
and integrity of
Patriarchal ReVocational ReStorations
and Green MotherTree reforesting revolutions--WinWin.
Categories:
rna, education, green, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Earth sciences
spill through LeftBrain spaces
and consciences
As artistic time-travel images
back through sight and sound
and more deeply into fragrance
and taste of sweet v sour and bitter, even worse
and touch of good v bad mistrusted,
sometimes even mutually distrusting
Feeling fractals
and sensing double-bound mysterious octaves
of wondrous color and music
spiraling fertile seasons,
operas,
operations,
designs.
Iconically captured in DNA and RNA
regenerating fold
and unfold
and refold,
weave
and unweave
and reweave time's holonic structures,
sacred ThreePoint Vectors
And, sadly, histories of degenerative violence
against sacred polycultural solidarity
with all Earth's LifeTribes.
These two appositions,
YangSpace and YinTime,
are a powerfully flowing combination,
fluently affluent when held together,
with sublime integrity
restoratively pre-generational,
enthymematic
toward diastatic
polypathic
sacredly re-creolic
fully invested commitment
to healthiest wealth of EgoYang
as wealthiest health of EcoYin.
Categories:
rna, art, beauty, creation, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Mother Yin nurtures a domestic economy
which retains indigenous becoming within nature-spirit
nondual places
Yin,
a concaving womb
for as long as Earth's collective memory
of light and dualdark
may recall.
Patriarch Yang's convexly vertical strengths of hunting,
colonizing,
commodifying
segregating quantitatively deduced values,
are not a priori possible
without primacy
of nondual co-arising
bilaterally horizontal horizons
of yin's dawn with dusk
dualdark matriarchal sacred MoonTimes.
0-Soul
WinWin
in each here and now moment
of living and dying
with focusing bicameral balance
on matriarchy's polyculturing outcomes
easing patriarchy's recent past
of monocultural ego-over-investments,
turning now toward cooperative re-investments in Mother Earth
from which human nature
RNA-derived
to DNA thrive.
Categories:
rna, caregiving, culture, health, history,
Form: Free verse
“The plants adapt, the people adopt.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Braiding Sweetgrass”
Plants conservatively propose;
people liberally dispose.
RNA organisms nature,
DNA humans nurture.
Economic environmental systems co-invest,
Ecological political systems absorb
to re-invest.
Earth bleeds cultures of health
and pathology.
Humanity feeds histories of wealth
and poverty.
Legislative economists cooperatively propose
and occasionally choose.
CEO public service administrators
competently dispose
and occasionally build cooperative WinWin ownership.
Earth natures cooperativey adapt,
Human spirits regeneratively adopt.
Categories:
rna, culture, earth, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
"To escape from the mean and penurious [competitions],
from calculating and scheming [WinLose Gaming],
is at time the parching [integrative healthy] desire
of [ecopolitical LeftBrain Dominant] man [sic]...
Prayer [RightBrain ecoconsciousness] clarifies
our [ego/ecotherapeutic] hope and intentions.
It helps us discover our true [maturing polypathic] aspirations,
the [monoculturing] pangs we ignore,
the [multicultural] longings we forget
[to expand our ego's monocultural identity].
It is an act of self[ego]-purification...
It [regeneratively] teaches us what [both Earth and Ego] aspire to,
implants in us the ideals we [DNA/RNA health-wealth encrypted] ought
to cherish
[with even more endo/ecto-symbiotic moral integrity
of self-optimizing ego-health
as Earth's perduring regenerative wealth]."
[Sorry, Abraham,
my LeftBrain always has to have the last bracketed word.]
No worries.
Enjoy your self-and-other perpetuating Sabbath.
Categories:
rna, beauty, blessing, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
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