"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time." ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


Monday, April 04, 2011

Better Living with Chemistry?

I am using both Magpie Tales and BifocalUnivision's

images and putting them together here:

Plus these two poems work perfectly for

this weeks Jingle Poetry Potluck

Evolution, Environment and Survival!!




Photo courtesy of Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales

No illusions floating

In radioactive fusion

Dangerous drops of water



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Photo courtesy of Eric Alder of BifocalUnivision


Ode to Yellow #6

there's cheetos and fritos

korn kurls and cheezits

krispy chips and corn nuts

but nuttin' like cheez puffs whew!

that's a whole lotta stuff


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for more Jingle Poetry Potluck go here:


for more Magpie Tales go here: http://magpietales.blogspot.com/

or for BifocalUnivision go here: http://bifocalunivision.blogspot.com/

27 comments:

  1. (Oh no! I've been cross-memed! LOL!)

    Simply delicious, Kathe! :)

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  2. I am not sure there is actually better living with chemistry. I suppose there is if all goes according to plan. Great Haiku and the cheesy stuff, I love it but it doesn't love me. I am sans one gallbladder and I just can't handle it.

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  3. A powerful message in the first one.

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  4. Timely, topical -- good.

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  5. Really grateful for that "whole lot of stuff"...all well done!

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  6. That's quite a visual, the one thing we can't live without, water. Brrr!

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  7. Excellent - the first is timely and more than a touch scary and the second is just plain tasty. :)

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  8. dangerous water drops indeed - good poems

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  9. lovely. both of them :)

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  10. Powerful and timely message in your first piece.

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  11. Anything to do with cheese makes me poetic!

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  12. Timely, superb work. Perfect.

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  13. Yellow is the colour of old fat! Haha!

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  14. Love this Kathe....but now I am hungry! :-)

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  15. Brilliant first and yummy second!

    Anna :o]

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  16. Those snacks look more radioactive than your rain!

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  17. Very neat poems . . but to UK eyes, that orange stuff is a ghastly colo(u)r!

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  18. there is something so tragic when a natural resourse like water, is something that causes fear.

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  19. ode to yellow was awesome.

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  20. Stellar! Both pieces.

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  21. Good Magpie Kathe ... bkm

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  22. Frightening when one stops to think about it. Excellent reality check.

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  23. Anonymous8:26 AM

    Like both these poems. The cheesy one made me hungry. Clever haiku too!

    http://jessicasjapes.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/evolution-in-a-nutshell/

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  24. wow..

    simply and direct.
    eloquent writing...

    A++

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  25. Anonymous11:55 AM

    wow! mines here~ http://fiveloaf.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/natures-gravity/

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  26. awesome write!

    Luna


    http://lunawitch15.wordpress.com

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