NaPoWriMo 2020 April 1, 2020
Posted by aquillam in Astronomy, poetry.Tags: bad poetry, humor, NaPoWriMo, poetry
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Like many others this year, I am working from home. Maybe I’ll have time for some blog updates, or poetry. I won’t promise to write one every day, but we’ll see how many I do get out.
You may regret following me.
Here’s a limerick to kick things off. Limericks are always an excellent choice.
This verse is neither, I fear Particularly clever or clear But as poetry goes It certainly shows You couldn’t do worse than start here.
Poem for 4/8/2016 April 8, 2016
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I couldn’t come up with a title for this one
The ceremonies have been performed The paperwork filed The flowers have wilted The casseroles are eaten Family and friends have returned home Clothing is boxed and sent to charity Just one last task to perform Blank cards waiting for the words "Thank you for your kindness and sympathy" Then the tasks will be done Life will move on
Shadows at dawn April 7, 2016
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The shadows of tree limbs stretch bare fingered limbs out across a rolling field tinged gold by the early light. They reach across the hills stretching for their kin almost a mile away then, unable to reach across the hills they slide back to their trees retreating with the rising Sun waiting for a new dawn to try again
Magnetic field April 6, 2016
Posted by aquillam in Astronomy, poetry, Science.Tags: astronomy, NaPoWriMo, physics
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Rising from the south pole,
Pushing the compass needle
Pointing
north
is that
way
Dragging with it
the charged particles
blown off of the Sun
that would strip our DNA
of important atoms
slamming them down
into the air
where they fluoresce
in dancing lights
and sing
in radio
It loops back down in the north
passing through the Earth
to rise again
protecting us
like a cocoon
from the harsh
life giving Sun
Sideways Orion 