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Let's Pretend it's April - Nov. 11
Rules: Write a poem for LPiA on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month have written 30 poems for the month of November.
Topic : Write a poem about or inspired by electricity.
Form : Any
Line requirements: Eight or more
Feel free to reply with comments or kudos as you wish.
Questions?
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Electricity powers phones,
fans, lights, water heaters,
phones, fridges, stoves,
garage doors, engines, phones,
stereo systems, traffic lights, side windows,
phones, metal detectors, ID scanners,
elevators, laptops, phones,
water coolers, coffee makers, phones,
printers, car alarms, phones,
taximeters, registers, phones,
ice machines, turn tables, lights,
smoke machines, dispensaries, phones,
toilets, sinks, mirrors,
vibrators, defibrillators, phones.
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Death in the Morning
It was the 70's
and I sat cross-legged
two feet from the TV
with a bowl of Fruit Loops
in my lap.
Whether it was Wile E. Coyote,
Yosemite Sam or some other
Saturday morning shmuck,
I've come to believe
all those animated electrocutions
and fifty-story falls
somehow helped to keep me
from getting zapped to death
or splatted on the road.
No one dies on Saturday mornings anymore.
There's no danger,
no gravity.
It's almost cartoonish.
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11-12-2021, 08:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-12-2021, 08:03 AM by CRNDLSM.)
- Egypt +
had batteries +
- built into pyramids.
Where is all our information
+ archived? -
+ -
Knowledge -
disintegrates +
from magnets to ashes
at google plex yottabytes per
+ instant.
-
-
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
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Sudden sunrise of electricity
synthesized by the Earth’s eccentricity
where volts crowd the streets
seeking the sacred lubricity
wandering the circuitous subWatts,
hands in pockets, pockets on fire.
Simplicity of amperes stranded on a beach,
outside the complicit city,
chromatic clowns with sockets
instead of hands dance the kilowatt,
their metered faces ecstatic
all spinning in the same direction
dervishes of conductive complicity
saluting an ocean of felicity.
Wire coil skull spins its magnet brain
denying night its dominion
denying the soul its specificity,
electrons swarm like flies about
their long ago God and drag light
back into its shell of inauthenticity.
The end is the beginning, fatal hours
spit into nothingness where night
passes judgement and the hum of eternity
falls to the wire cutter underworld,
kinetic silence of galvanic salvation.
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Telegraphy
What made electricity so strange?
It was not the first invisible
for wind and water pressure could
be made to move machinery.
Fire mysterious and terrible
could at least be seen
but electricity caused distant
changes without motion on command.
First magic needing no necromancy–
then sibling magnetism’s influence
dispensed entirely with wires to
let magic bloom in empty space.
Non-practicing atheist
