Questions?
...Questions
If form follows function,
why does everything have too many bells and whistles?
Especially cell phone.
If everything is so simple a rocket scientist could do it,
why aren’t we all ...
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Categories:
werner, humorous,
Form: Free verse
I Feel So Little Send Me what you heard around the worlds said It is Good It feels Like Good Energy
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Categories:
werner, adventure, america, analogy, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Werner Chapel
...god is
what I don't know
high Gothic arches pierce the sky
to commemorate a body
washed ashore on the bank of the Rhine
that inspired a wave of pogroms in 1287
a body, that became a saint
a ...
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Categories:
werner, humanity, jewish,
Form: Free verse
Certainty
...
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” — Werner Heisenberg
heisenberg did not
expres...
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Categories:
werner, god, science,
Form: Verse
Decrypting the Code
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“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
- Werner Heisenberg
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Here, within this lucid dream, we call life
Stuporous is l...
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Categories:
werner, god, light, love, spiritual,
Form: Terza Rima
Wrinkles In My Mind
...5th grade
I remember the air raid drills
sitting tight against the wall
arms folded behind our cow licked heads
waiting for the all clear call
as the red bear menace waddled up and down the ha...
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Categories:
werner, 5th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Heavenly Message
...W-ords
E-xpress
R-emarkable
N-ote
E-mploying
R-ighteousness
S-o
C-lassic
H-eavenly
M-essage
I-s
D-one
T-ruthfully
Topic: Birthday of poet Werner Schmidt (May 03)
Form: Vertical Mon...
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Categories:
werner, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Transparency
...If I were not a GAY white male
living in the USA,
I wonder if I would have grown my LeftBrain up
to so easily hear
Donald John as Head Pharisee
for privileged religiously-held Nationalism--
a ...
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Categories:
werner, addiction, earth, health, heaven,
Form: Political Verse
Hope For Respect
...My thought for this day,
although still early,
is respect for hope.
Respect for our interdependence
and respect for our challenging differences,
important, yet hopefully not as powerful
as ou...
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Categories:
werner, bible, caregiving, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse
Nine Eleven
...An afternoon of dark flowers.
Werner told me,
there were bad men in flight.
Then we sat in a broken circle,
as if the air was forbidden
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Categories:
werner, anniversary,
Form: Elegy
Bio In Short
...It's been a good run
To the back side of sixty,
The short side of time.
First Hollywood kiss
Behind a pink crepe myrtle.
Thanks, Patsy Werner.
High school was okay.
Didn't help me to focus;
So, my ...
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Categories:
werner, adventure, age, celebration, education,
Form: Haiku
Grandma's Calling
...Grandma's Calling
A subtle truth, I want to convey...
I long, to see you, before it's too late.
Come share a laugh, exchange a smile...
Will you sit next to me, and stay for awhile?
Spend time wit...
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Categories:
werner, age, life, time,
Form: Rhyme