Short Genetic Code Poems

quantum
worlds collide in space-
particles accelerate

genetic code
altered by unknowns-
star seeds

populated planet
in the God’s Eye Nebula-
new species

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Machete jabs
cycle through a staccato lied.
 
The music is Jurassic,
a tune rattled in the throat
of a feathered lizard.
 
It pecks out the genetic code
of jackhammers.
Stabs eardrums deep,
a primal stirring
of blood and sap.
 
The forest echoes
as time hammers on....

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Before the ending, there is this other self -
it is a little ahead of me.
He does not look back,
only I look back, imagine a path
all the way to the middle 
of a spiral foretelling.
I imagine I am still a seed,
(it being a genetic code
that has to be unwound through
spit and blood).
Maybe the acorn knows
or he knows who comes after me
carrying my soul like a dead moth, 
and smiling with a secret knowledge
as if he were kind....

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WHO WE ARE AT OUR CORE

Are we who we think we are
Or more likely what others think
Perhaps multifaceted, we may be
Or neither, always a mystery
Taking self-analysis to the brink
But in the end, just raise the bar

At our core, whatever that may be
Some sort of an inherent disposition
Or just acting out our genetic code
Delving deep to find the mother lode
When psychoanalysis is an imposition
Will anyone ever know the real me
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It twists and coils
 under a microscope
double stranded
  the dance of life
in genetic code
  dense with mystery
replicating sequences
  promising secrets ~
in essence of identity



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~SUNSETTING WHISPERS~ 2020

AP: 3rd place 2022

Submitted on April 5, 2020 for contest STRAND POETRY PICK 2 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  HONORABLE MENTION

and July 15, 2019 fro contest THE MINIVERSE sponsored by NINA PARMENTER...

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Machete pecks
cycle through a staccato lied.
The music is Jurassic,
a tune rattled in the throat
of a feathered lizard –
the genetic code
of jackhammers.
Apart from the tock-tock
of beak on wood,
their calls are insane.
One could be a jack-ass braying,
one a monkey’s angry chatter.
In some we can hear a pterodactyl
calling from a far distant past.
Woodpeckers are wonderful,
Awesome, 
the way a velociraptor
would be awesome 
if it could whomp its way
through forests....

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