Sonnet: Ubiquitous love
U nless a living creature clones alone-
B esides the single-celled, it's rather rare,
I nherited biology has sewn
Q uiescent pairing instincts set to flare.
U niting every animal as kin
I n similar design, cells synthesize,
T ime-tested love concoctions made within
O ur cousins in their various disguise.
U ncomplicated impulse guides the small
S wift action's called for when one's span is short,
L ess hurried lives are swept by rise and fall
O f rhythmic waves which tip their paths athwart.
V ibrations shake the biosphere surround
E sprit of countless love affairs unbound.
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Some Clerihews
David Attenborough,
nature lover thorough
Intrepid explorer
of fauna and flora.
James Hansen
claims sanction
for future wealth,
grandchildren's health.
Richard Dawkins
grew four paw-fins
picked carte blanche
from ev'ry branch.
Julia Gillard,
duelling for bill hard
Save carbon tax
from Abbotts's axe.
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Sonnet: Supercell Storm
S uppose two winds, free-flowing, north and west
U nruffled, one above and one below
P roduced a shearing interface which pressed
E ntrapping both in spinning vortex flow.
R otating updraft joins the spiralled pair
C louds billow, anvil-shaped in troposphere
E ffecting thunderstorm extraordinaire
L argesse of nature, tier on swelling tier.
L et lovers take the place of wayward winds
S ubverted by a touch and skyward thrust
T ormented in a maelstrom which rescinds
O bjective sense, tranquility and trust.
R egard with care a whirlwinds human form
M ercurial passions' mesocyclone storm.
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Sonnet: Transcendental
T he aliens appeared from some odd space
R esplendently from nowhere legerdemain.
A much enhanced adroit immortal race
N o longer plagued by wretchedness or pain.
S erene observers here to watch the play-
‘C haotic Earth', a tragedy by ‘Chance'.
E ntranced, they ached in some forgotten way
N egated by their consummate advance.
D o we detect a wistful backward gaze
E scapes their ideal eyes in last ‘goodbyes'?
N o mere immortal knows the way we blaze,
T ranscendent passions are the mortal's prize.
A mid the fear of loss, pure joy is found,
L ove's paradox to which all life is bound.
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Entanglement
A stream of photons hits a sheet of glass;
no reason some reflect while most go through.
A certain depth allows them all to pass;
the ones that go before must give a clue.
The photons harmonize, their gift is art.
They love to spread as waves and keep in touch.
Send two entangled photons far apart,
if one is read, the other knows as much.
Yet no communication goes between,
for nothing can exceed the speed of light.
And why do random photons trampoline
from glass, while random others last the flight?
Though Einstein thought that God does not throw dice,
seems Lucifer took contrary advice.
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Flight of Fancy
A mood evolves that's quietly disruptive,
a phantom in periphery of sight.
Innocuous and pleasantly inductive,
before a sudden unexpected bite.
An undefined and tantalizing call,
an ache that fits as closely as a glove;
This universe's strongest force of all,
is carried by compelling waves of gluons.
The gluons bind the quarks inside the protons;
although quarks's spelt like lark, it rhymes with hawk.
More Herculean than the puny photons,
if photons coo like doves, then gluons squawk.
The strong force smashes other three to smidgens,
like goshawks mash cute doves and larks and pigeons.
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Demise
Old stone pine under stress
sags on fused backbone,
Pale needled, threadbare dress
tattered bark unsewn,
bald skeletal egress.
All savings withdrawn, spent
and lavishly thrown
with prolific intent,
Profuse burnished cones,
a profligate descent.
Three years in the making,
these cones are slow grown,
Brittle limbs forsaking
bud to overblown,
fecund undertaking.
Flaunt open oil-rich prize,
willingly condone
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Bird Song
Freshly hatched from seminary,
young unchary missionary,
picked New Guinea estuary,
for his work revisionary.
In the jungle aviary,
filamentary and airy,
soft, maybe imaginary,
boom......boom.......boom.
Straying from processionary,
for a matter urinary,
met a revolutionary,
mercenary cassowary.
Indiscretionary tarry
and insalutary parry,
gutted him in sanguinary
doom.....doom........doom.
' Mid the garlands, funerary,
honorary luminary,
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Reproduction
When
dry mung bean grows true,
hound brings reaper's quail,
deep in jungle beds,
spun cloth bound cocoon,
doe retires in slouch,
grappling air for space,
briny mating reels,
ferns hold mooring bonds,
coral spawning brief,
sticks weave weathered nest,
bullfrog had droll dirge,
and viral pins host cells.
Then
shy young green shows through,
foundling cheepers fail,
creep thin fungal threads,
one moth flounders soon,
joey hires skin pouch,
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Aliens and Predators
Toxoplasma parasite has seized control of rat,
redirecting rodent's brain,
‘Take me to a cat'.
Rat has infiltrated ship, the galley cat's domain.
Post a chat and playful pat,
rat's politely slain.
Foreign port with fishy smells entices cat to shore.
Greedy feline eyes espy,
rainbow hued macaw.
Sidetracked to the jungle fringe where bearings fall awry,
hesitantly lifts a paw,
evening blacks the sky.
Moonless, clouded, thickly foliaged jungle presses tight.
Crawling floor's a restless bed,
wide-eyed cat's contrite.
Coiled above, a viper's membraned pits sense infrared.
Scans the cat's warm inner light,
slips by overhead.
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