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Occasional Poetry - 42. Meteor and Bernoulli
i>Two more in a series. Meteor was written in mid-August, and you might guess why. If I erred, gentle reader, please don't turn me in to the authorities.
Meteor
That Perseid, a meteor,
so blazed the sky at Baltimore,
it caused a thousand hearts to sigh
with wishes made, a million score.
We look northeast and watch the sky;
the Earth meets flotsam drifting by,
which, captured by the atmosphere,
will spend themselves in flame and die.
No stars are shot, the skeptics sneer,
despite our superstition dear;
no hopeful thought on burning rock
will alter physics, so I fear.
Yet scientific rules I mock
in wanting Newton's laws to block
by asking Perseus once more
that I might yet your heart unlock.
Bernoulli
Bernoulli had a thought, you know,
that air which farther had to go
would travel faster, leaving naught,
creating lift beneath the flow.
This principle, so I was taught,
is one of which the world was wrought;
it's why a plane might leave the ground,
although with gravity it fought.
Bernoulli showed, it might astound,
why, just today, you might have found
me cursing in the washroom steam,
and with the shower-curtain wound.
Yet vacuum's lift I might redeem,
for if I stand in life's full stream,
a force will lift me near you, so,
and closer to my favorite dream.
i>I hope you will leave a comment, rant, indictment, response or verse of your own.
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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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