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Balladeer
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0 posted 2001-04-22 08:41 PM




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...

© Copyright 2001 Michael Mack - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2001-04-22 08:48 PM


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*~


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2 posted 2001-04-22 08:50 PM


Perfect!  Food for thought, including a Big Mac[k].
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3 posted 2001-04-22 08:54 PM


I do love the way you think...and of course the way you write!  

Love ya
Denise

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4 posted 2001-04-22 08:54 PM


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.

"earth has been spinnin'
west to east
around the sun
like all the other planets
except Venus and Uranus
who spin east to west"



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5 posted 2001-04-22 09:00 PM


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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6 posted 2001-04-22 09:26 PM




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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7 posted 2001-04-22 09:55 PM


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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8 posted 2001-04-22 10:26 PM


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*

"We can all become what we aspire to be
If Heaven's here on Earth..." ~Tracy Chapman

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9 posted 2001-04-22 11:04 PM


"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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10 posted 2001-04-22 11:11 PM


As usual, I really enjoyed your poem.  So true.  Joyce
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11 posted 2001-04-23 12:54 PM


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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12 posted 2001-04-23 07:24 AM


You Da Deer Big Mac Man...

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13 posted 2001-04-25 03:28 PM


Ramble on, Big Mack... this is superb!
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14 posted 2001-04-25 04:06 PM


Deer,

You do have a way with words.    I thought this was great.  Gave me a big laugh.  Thanks.

Michael

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"Love is space and time measured by the heart"

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