Short Geologist Poems

Geologist Philips

      Here lies Geologist Philips in mirth
      exploring Earth under Earth.


    02/12/23


  A Brian Strand Choice  no. 1185...

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UNDERGROUND STUDY

 
                          Here lies geologist Hardy
                        engaged in underground study.


    04/23/19

  'An Epitaph to make us laugh 2' Contest by Jesse Rowe...

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Their petals feel like velvet
And they prance down a line
Looking like miniature bells
Foxgloves, beautiful foxgloves!

I hide in their meadow
Hoping to never be discovered
Others can do the wash and the cooking
I am studying vegetation

I am a biologist
I am a geologist
I am a scientist
Sister can do the laundry, not me, never me....

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Close up, under the petrologic microscope,
high-power modern optics scans
a mineral set in a thin rock chip matrix.
Viewed in the polarized light, 
on the rotating microscope stage,
sunset hues sweep across the grain, 
the mineral flashes fiery colors,
defined by its crystal structure.
A geologist tells me it’s a precious mineral,
hidden in its natural habitat of rock fabric.
...

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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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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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