dVerse Poets – Poetics – Let’s Get Elemental
Sarah at dVerse has invited us to write about the elements of the periodic table in whatever creative ways we choose. This is my second go, and this time I’ve chosen Carbon which, being an allotrope, gives us a variety of things, diamonds, coal 😦 , graphite, graphenes, and so on. It is for all occasions, it is a necessary part of forming oxygen, but it is also a major environmental problem too.
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“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it” Robert Swan
Meta Carbo
Shining dangle trinket
an all occasion party type,
now retiring like quiet
Albrecht in a pencil thin garret,
sometimes darkly dark, though
more recently sneaky congestion
leaking all around me,
beautiful choking imbalance,
really hot stuff
searing my lungs,
everything,
no more the exchange
nothing can breathe,
leaving now,
disappearing through
a hole in the sky,
until, of course,
I change my carbon life.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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Allotrope – great word. Love a bit of scientific language. I love your different facets of carbon – especially old Albrecht in his pencil thin garret – witty and oblique. I’m glad you’ve enjoyed this prompt.
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I’m having a great time, thank you Sarah.
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Clever stuff, oh fellow carbon-based life form 😉
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I was waiting for someone to say something along those lines – lol – thank you Chris.
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Sorry, it was my inner Mr Spock speaking 😉
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😉 indeed 🙂
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Powerful poem – well said
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Thank you so much Lyn
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