Short Radium Poems

LUMINOUS TIME
(Radium)

to light up one’s face
emitting the time of night…
lives taken in lieu.
 
© Harry J Horsman 2015...

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A's B/to Mercury/the sun
For me/your metallic/radium stun
Permeating pupils/my forever rising moon
Nightlight/keeping my suppositions alive
The chemical/cooling my mind
Boiling inside/my pining/my spine...

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I am spinning my radioactive waves today.
Alpha beta gamma
There they go!
Beta gamma alpha
Even faster.
Gamma alpha beta
Man can they fly!
I am radium.
My atomic nuclei is rapidly disintegrating
So please get under your desk, school children.
And put your tiny fingers and arms over your heads.
So you will be safe....

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I look in the mirror
And imagine what I could be.
I picture a crown without tears.
I see silver veins coursing through me.
Refined gold is what I bleed. 
My tears are titanium.
I eat copper like wheat.
Yumm radium.
Iron and Steel are sweet.
I like my Cobolt well done. 
Aluminum is always a treat.
But the nickle and magnesium,
are as tender as concrete....

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I.

The great Albert Einstein
Would appreciate a fine wine,
And after sipping a little
He would play upon his fiddle 

II.

The legendary chemist Linus Pauling
Found the hydrogen and atom bombs appalling,
And after winning one for chemistry he would not cease
Until he won another Nobel Prize for peace.

III.

Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie
Was just as famous as could be—
Amidst the fin-de-siècle pandemonium
She discovered radium and polonium....

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Darkness lingers 
on the other side 
of the glass
Sweet disaster
rings in my ears
As I drink myself
to indifference

Tiny buckets 
of amber radium
burn trails 
down my throat
leaving craters 
in my soul

Never reaching 
the thirst or the 
inviting darkness

In one-eyed splendor
I look up from my glass
to rearrange dusty words
and search my desert soul
for a sliver of shade

But the darkness remains
just out of reach
yet never more
than a drink away....

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