Simulated Evolution
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As a paleontologist my research has supported the idea that the primary
cause of dinosaur extinction had been the massive impact of at least 10 km
diameter asteroid in the Yucatan Peninsula, cr...
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Categories:
yucatan, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Narrative
The Dinosaurs At Webb Dock
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Early morning and the gantry cranes
at Webb Dock look like long necked
dinosaurs lining up to drink from the river -
and the sky is aglow as it might have been
when tinged by the first hint ...
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Categories:
yucatan, fire, world,
Form: Free verse
Yucatan Habanero
...Traveling through the land,
I was told that I would receive hot food
once I reached the YUCATAN.
My taste buds are of fire
As the flame kisses my lips and tongue.
Oh Pavlov, can you see my ...
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Categories:
yucatan, appreciation, food,
Form: Free verse
Tale of a Retired Comedian
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Comedian in a silver caravan,
Better than living in Yucatan.
Found her a hot, young, man,
Sitting in the sun, getting so tan.
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Categories:
yucatan, beach, humor, moon, passion,
Form: Rhyme
The Flamingo Painted Pink
...We were excited to walk on our favorite beach…and at the same time ascertain…
if and how our favorite beach had been affected by the hurricane.
Some parts were still flooded…and just as we had fe...
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Categories:
yucatan, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Tropical Bird Song
...When the Sea is spread out against the gray clouded skies,
Sunrise quiet gives us sweet songs of the tropical birds of the of the Yucatan,
Daybreak warm gulf breezes playing with the leaves of...
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Categories:
yucatan, adventure, angel, animal, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Y Words-
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Yggdrasil
younglings
yobbishly
yohimbine
yammering yardsticks
year-round
yuppifying
yuppifies
yokefellow
yarborough
yellowtail Ypsilanti
yearningly
yellowback
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Categories:
yucatan, analogy, word play, words,
Form: Free verse
Garden Hummer Conundrum
...Poor Ruby Hummer looks confused,
searching for her favorite feeder.
It was right there when it last was used,
in September, in the cedar.
Above the Bee-balm and Lobelia,
in my pollinator garde...
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Categories:
yucatan, bird, flower, garden, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Why We Are Here
...What explains the existence of man?
Are we part of a great, noble plan?
What gave man his big break?
Eden’s wise, wily snake?
Just some space junk that hit Yucatan.
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Categories:
yucatan, humanity, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Yucatan, Et Cetera
...Yucatan, etc.
Cortez, DeMille are gone.
It's now the locus
of postgraduate honeymoons,
urban fugues, a minor literary genre.
Knowledge and ejection predispose us
to technological parody--
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Categories:
yucatan, fate, holiday, irony, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Bridge the Generation the Young and Elderly
...I am a young man from Yucatan
Trying to understand
You're an elder man from Philly
I bridge a road, a road I've build the emotional trip ever so chilly
You were born shoes you walk in where made ...
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Categories:
yucatan, adventure, age, allegory, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
The Hurricane Was Harvey
...The Hurricane was Harvey
By Franklin Price
8/31/2017
The hurricane was Harvey, what an unassuming name
Left the western Yucatan. across the Gulf he came
Building up his power to a category fou...
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Categories:
yucatan, care, community, hope, inspiration,
Form: Couplet
Mother of All Political Poetry, Yucatec Maya and Dr Anil Sook Deo
...Staking Claims: For Yucatec Maya & Native Peoples
The stones of the desert cry with me
They are brothers and sisters, but no bloody kin
New hearts see just cold rocks … no warmth or chari...
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Categories:
yucatan, abuse, education,
Form: Rhyme
The Forgotten
...Lives have been lived by millions of people that have been forgotten or worse never known. People that walked our world, looked at the same sun, the same moon that we see today. Lived lives, had fami...
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Categories:
yucatan, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Forgotten
...Lives have been lived by millions of people that have been forgotten or worse never known. People that walked our world, looked at the same sun, the same moon that we see today. Lived lives, had fami...
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Categories:
yucatan, appreciation,
Form: Prose
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