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Earth Day Ramblings......
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Earth Day Ramblings...... |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA 
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Four point six billion that's a bunch boy... big bang lotsa years there 4,600,000,000 earth has been spinnin' west to east around the sun like all the other planets except Venus and Uranus who spin east to west but nobody will tell me why. Renegades, I guess gotta be different.... early atmosphere consisted of helium ammonia hydrogen methane no oxygen no water no life no Big Macs over a lotta time radioactive material and increasing pressure way down deep produced heat.. melted earth's interior. it was a mess! Silicants (those rocks of silicon and oxygen) rose up to the surface formed earth's crust. it took a while.... Oxygen mixed it up with hydrogen.. water was invented, collected in low places to form oceans. Rain water dissolved salts from rocks carried them to the oceans.. salty water three point eight billion first bacteria appeared no Comet cleanser in sight two billion first single cell with nucleus my daddy and yours five hundred million plants working overtime and weekends use photosynthesis to create enough oxygen to create atmosphere so we can breathe.. thank a plant today. earth has been through the wringer.. earthquakes continental shifts colliding platelets meteor hits volcanoes Bill Clinton millions and billions of years now, Man who appeared yesterday is afraid of destroying the earth. Mother Nature is cracking up laughing histerically Krakatoa introduced more pollutants in the air than 3000 times what man has produced and there were others one or two Mother Nature is not worried. Man cannot hurt her Man can only hurt Man. Mother will simply shrug her shoulders and start over, if necessary create another bacteria in a million years or so. Man is an ant floating down the river on his back in an excited state, screaming "Raise the drawbridge!" Earth will survive. We are the ones with a problem. Anyway, I don't care. Scientists claim that the Andromeda galaxy will collide with ours in two billion years so I ain't buying anything on credit... |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Balladeer~ LOL ! Over and over again ! LOL ! That Mother Earth ... she's some babe, huh ? You are just the most pratical thinker alive ! Love your outlook ! Doubling over with laughter at some of your references ... You are da' man ! Have you been hugged by a single-celled nucleus today ?  (((You Have Now))) Love ya' ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Perfect! Food for thought, including a Big Mac[k]. |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
I do love the way you think...and of course the way you write!  Love ya Denise |
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inot2B Member Elite
since 2000-09-18
Posts 2205Arkansas |
Ok I'm still trying to take in all you wrote but this here has me confused. Is it true? I've never heard of this before. west to east around the sun like all the other planets except Venus and Uranus who spin east to west" |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Marge...ROFL!!!! No, as a matter of fact, I have NOT been hugged by a single cell nucleus today!!! I think you and Mother Earth are definitely from the same family tree!!  Sunshine...then I think I'll have one! Thank you!! Denise...and I love the way you...are! Thank you, my friend.. inot2B...it's a fact. The only thing untrue in this piece is that I don't buy things on credit.. |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
this is probably one of the absolute best poems i have ever read of yours and i'm telling you, michael, please please... continue to write free verse... you have too many excellent lines in here to quote... it's a work of art combining imagery, time, humor, depth, and perception a visual and verbal feast.... it should be recited... as a matter of fact, it just was... lol... i recited it... but i'd rather hear you do it.... excellent work, sweet Poet.... i Love it!!!! |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
yes, please write free verse, as with everything else, you do it so well. This is fabulous. I'd wink at you, but I'm too drained tonight [This message has been edited by Irish Rose (edited 04-22-2001).] |
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Alwye
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since 1999-06-16
Posts 3850In the space between moments |
Awesome 'Deer, just awesome! Your words are very true and I loved all the info about the Earth in this. Great read m'friend, I enjoyed it!  *Krista Knutson* |
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Kit McCallum
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Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
"no oxygen no water no life no Big Macs" Excellent Michael ... a poignant piece with wonderful scientific facts and messages woven throughout. Wow! I'll take a lesson from you in this form any day! Is there nothing you can't write Master Poet? Superb! Now about that line above ... Best wishes, /Kit |
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Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State |
As usual, I really enjoyed your poem. So true. Joyce |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Oh I LOVED this! Can I hear it *wink* pretty please with sugar on top? This was "out of this world", but you will read it better than I do, so.... |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
You Da Deer Big Mac Man... |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Ramble on, Big Mack... this is superb! |
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Auguste
since 2000-02-16
Posts 3953By the sea |
Deer, You do have a way with words. I thought this was great. Gave me a big laugh. Thanks.Michael Proust- |
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