Short Nikola Tesla Poems

Mu uncle Franklin
was a pro wrestler.
He lit up a room
like Nikola Tesla.

My aunt Judy
was a cake maker.
Her cakes were tall
like an LA Laker.

My brother Steve
played video games
-until my mom Kate
called him names.

Kate, to her credit
was a fine, fine artist.
But with brains, forget it.
I am the smartest....

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Our sight is obstructed by a wall and a shadow. 
          ~Nikola Tesla

O2 at 2L keeps Mother's skin
color healthy,
but she's frail, 
more frail each day she lingers 
in this world of shadows~
She holds the holy grail
of God's light and follows a path
illumined by love and grace,
powered by God's wind and golden sail....

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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. 
~ Nikola Tesla

nights are dark and long
and those who come only
to wheedle
me into eating, or drinking, or brushing my hair
coddle and coo 
yet bear knife and needle
to prepare my mind to sleep and rest
no, not to rest, to forget - they come and spiel
dogmatic scientific credal...

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Tesla the inventor
an eccentric Serbian
once worked for a businessman
an entrepreneurial USAnian
when Edison had an idea bright
saw the light
and invented DC electricity
positive and ground
as found in a battery
then Nikola created AC
as used in the home
by the whole family
a contest still
a power struggle
if you will
however
Tesla the car
employs both forms of energy
as does the phonograph
so tho' posthumously
looks like Thomas had the last laugh
...

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