From Robert Lee Brewer:
This is the 10th annual April Poem-A-Day Challenge. During the first one, Tammy and I had to hunt down (and pay for) Internet access in a “cyber cafe” (located in an arcade) to post the prompt and poem. Now, we’re in New Orleans (on our way to Austin for the Austin International Poetry Festival), and we have free wifi. We’ve come a long way since 2008. Now, let’s poem!
For today’s prompt, pick an element (like from the periodic table), make it the title of your poem (or part of the title), and then, write the poem. Anything goes from hydrogen to oganesson.
this is obviously not mine but it's fun so here you go...
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Hydrogen and Helium, Then Lithium, Beryllium
Boron, Carbon everywhere,
Nitrogen all through the air
With Oxygen so you can breathe
And Fluorine for your pretty teeth
Neon to light up the signs,
Sodium for salty times
MAGNESIUM, Aluminum Silicon PHOSPHORUS,
then Sulfur, Chlorine and Argon
POTASSIUM and Calcium so you'll grow strong
SCANDIUM Titanium Vanadium and Chromium and MANGANESE
This is the Periodic Table, Noble Gas are stable,
Halogens and Alkali react aggressively
Each period we'll see new outer shells
While electrons are added moving to the right
Iron is the 26 Then Cobalt, Nickel coins you get
Copper Zinc and Gallium
Germanium and Arsenic
Selenium and Bromine film
While Krypton helps light up your room
Rubidium and Strontium then Yttrium Zirconium
NIOBIUM Molybdenum Technetium
RUTHENIUM Rhodium Palladium
SILVER-WARE then Cadmium and Indium
TIN-CANS, Antimony Then Tellurium and
Iodine and Xenon and then Caesium and
Barium is 56, and this is where the table splits
Where lanthanides have just begun
Lanthanum Cerium and Praseodymium
Neodymium's next to, Promethium then 62,
Samarium, Europium, Gadolinium and Terbium,
Dysprosium, Holmium, Erbium, Thulium, Ytterbium, Lutetium
HAFNIUM Tantalum Tungsten then we're on to
RHENIUM, Osmium and Iridium
PLATINUM, Gold to make you rich till you grow old
MERCURY to tell you when it's really cold
THALLIUM and Lead then Bismuth for your tummy
POLONIUM Astatine would not be yummy
RADON Francium will last a little time
RADIUM then Actinides at 89
This is the Periodic Table, Noble Gas are stable,
Halogens and Alkali react aggressively
Each period we'll see new outer shells
While electrons are to the right
Actinium, Thorium, Protactinium
Uranium Neptunium Plutonium
Americium Curium Berkelium Californium
Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium
Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium
Bohrium Hassium then Meinerium Darmstadtium
Roentgenium Copernicium
Ununtrium
Flerovium
Ununpentium
Livermorium
Ununseptium
Ununoctium
And then We're Done!!!
Clever! WEll done.
Deleteas i said this is not mine... the author is that genius Tom Lehr
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My Cadmium
ReplyDeleteYou are rare. I know no other like you
wrapped in your arms I am protected
yet I fear you - inhale you I become ill
swallow you and I could die.
I am weak and need your strength
my cadmium - my savior - my tormentor.
ah, I don't envy you, however I do apperciate your verse for sure!
DeleteKind of an S&M poem, but that would be Sulfur and one of the M elements. LOL
DeleteTasha I don't understand your comment. Do you envy me my ability to take a nonhuman element and give it human form? you do realize all poems are not literal or about the poet but some are just poems for the sake of poetry.
DeleteAnd Vic! Yep I agree... LOL!
I like this one a lot! you make a poem about a poisonous gas and make it work.
DeleteTasha I meant what don't you envy me... then the rest of my comment... lol!
DeleteOnce water, fire, earth and air
ReplyDeletethe only elements there were,
Creation said, and named them then
all that made up the world of men,
and women too, although of course
they weren't considered as a force.
Then someone said, ah, wait a minute
perhaps there is just one more in it
and ether the invisible one
was added to make five the sum.
But then it seemed that life became
more intricate, with none to blame,
and bit by bit the table grew
to more and more until who knew
How many ever there might be
Lavoisier published thirty three
And now without an end in sight
There is a list we could recite:
Begin with Hydrogen, the first
To Oganesson, not the worst
but most unstable as they say.
What's next? we'll see, but not today.
lmbo! love it! fun write :-)
DeleteCute. I love it that you got the other "elements" into the poem too.
DeleteVery cute write. I loved it! It read well aloud also!
DeleteThanks, dear ones, Your enthusiastic comments greatly appreciated. This is so much fun!
DeletePS This poem is supposed to be titled Table of Elements..and if you care to, please do take a look at my poem of yesterday and tell me how you like it? I posted it rather late...
DeleteI am having a hard time keeping up with this on a daily basis. I will try to go back and review the whole week on Friday when I have a bit more time.
DeleteI'm sorry to disillusion
ReplyDeleteso many children
and perhaps grown-ups too
probably millions
maybe billions
those who never thought
of poor Superman
He could never have
survived on planet earth
the elements of pure clean
air on the planet of my birth
are Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon,
Carbon Dioxide, Neon, Helium,
Methane, Krypton, Hydrogen
and Xenon...
Now with Krypton in the air
every breath poor Supey
took would have been
sharply painful
until he finally died
of a disease like
C.O. P. D.
How could they make such
a mistake...
LOL. I could argue that the same thing that made him invulnerable also made him able to live on Earth. Sorry, the nerd in me just can't help myself sometimes.
Deletethis is original which I look for in poems. you made it your own. I would never have thought of this,
DeleteAgreed, very clever indeed!
Deleteomg! this is hilarious! Keith laughed too and said he has wondered for years how the writers of superman could have missed that.
ReplyDeleteAs a rugged, blustery
ReplyDeletesort of little girl, I scraped
my knees, elbows, and ankles
far too often, displayed red,
raw, oozy spots to the world
although I tried to hide them.
But my mother would catch me,
smear iodine over cuts,
made them burn like fire, stained
them more red, poisoned my wounds.
I knew because the label
displayed a skull and crossbones.
lol! yes it did! I had forgotten.. fun memories and a very good write! I love the original thoughts and tying the element into your childhood memories.
DeleteKeith is still chuckling over this one
DeleteI remember Iodine, and I hated it!!! Remember having your throat painted with it? UGH!!!
DeleteNow I do. I think I had totally repressed that. It would have had it in the poem!
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