Short Geologic Poems

Galactic and fleeting
Galvanic completing
Gone, never repeating
Geologic receding
Glowing and preceding
Glyphs that they were reading
Gnosis they were leading...

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GEOLOGICAL    HUMOUR


A   geologist respondent  called  Smith

Answered the  newspaper  job-list  herewith

“Man wanted as a  field geologist” with

Great  skill at  at finding a batholith

Or sometimes an occasional  laccolith.

But his geologic skill was only a myth.

Unlike my  geologic  kin and  kith,

Instead of being a man,   she  wath a mith  -

Ath  I dithcovered  when she gave me a kith....

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Fossil, lithified archive of archaic organic entities
the engraved vestiges of geologic deluge obscure
the petrified signature of fragile existence lost
the lineage weaved by the strands of evolution.

The broken life buried in sediments of strife
covered by the debris of crumbled time past.
Even before the grave is dug skeletal life’s relic
turns into forgotten fossil in the living world.

November 15, 2018...

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SPEECH      IMPEDIMENT     JOB-SEEKER


An  aged  respondent  called  Smith
Answered the  newspaper  job-list  herewith
“Man wanted as geologist 
Great  skill at digging out schist
And  now and again a  large  batholith.”


But this geologic skill was  a myth.
Because  like  rock-hound  kin and  kith
They  just  wanted a man,    
Not  the   lisping  old  gran 
That   they  thaw  when she gave them  a kith....

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