Short Centimetre Poems

Ye might be feather light, lean or leafy, 
You scarce can a spot kiss in a jiffy, 
Till a bird be of flight 
That flies faster than light, 
Jiffy is a birdie a bit iffy. 
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Jiffy is equal to about 33.3504 picoseconds (one trillionth of a second). Now, to reach anywhere in a jiffy one must travel one centimetre faster than the speed of light. Can you? 

 Tongue-in-cheek | 13.03.2017 | humour...

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A hair about a centimetre long!
Was it an eyelash
or a tiny piece of nasal ornamentation
in this library book?

Was it left here by the last borrower?
Or has she - or he -
found it, known it was from
the previous borrower, and ignored it?

How long could eyelash
or nasal hair
remain here on page sixty-five
almost defying its removal?

Or will a librarian happen across this souvenir,
blow it away
before returning the book
to its place on the shelf?


(2 Oct 2023)...

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