🤕 & 💘 🗣🎼🎤🎹 HEAD AND HEART The conscious mind’s had no real rationale to explain unreasoned romantic acts; endocrinology, however, shall provide new answers, based on sounder facts. This system, ruled by lobes within the brain, initiates emotions chemic’ly; adrenals startle, endorphins numb pain and hormones stimulate systemic’ly. This balance of drugs, dispensed with the aid of […]
Read more "Head And Heart"Natural Selection first appeared in Poetic Justice in 1984. Note: Barnacles begin life as free swimming crustaceans, but, at maturity, secrete the strongest known natural glue in which to secure their heads, and for the rest of their lives they remain stationary, kicking food into their mouths, using their legs as syphoning filters for plankton. […]
Read more "Natural Selection"🎼🎤 🎶 play This offering is just a little treat for Halloween. It is the first of what I call my expanded sonnets, sonnet squared or sonnet sets. Each is composed of 14 Shakespearean sonnets (196 lines of poetry), and ends with the last two sonnets having the same, but transposed rhyme scheme, so as to […]
Read more "Beastly Obsession"It offers progress, but not salvation.
Read more "No Religion"INTELLECT AND CONVICTION Einstein was brilliant, we all can agree. He opened up new possibility – the Theory of Relativity he worked out, questing for simplicity. His equation, E=mc2, is a well-accepted reality; there’s no doubt about how well it has fared in destruction and practicality. Though people know this, most don’t understand the […]
Read more "Intellect and Conviction"PROVEN ASSUMPTIONS There are, within the realm of common sense, a great many beliefs, unanalyzed because they command complete confidence, or they’ve been handed down until they’re prized. When Science sets out to investigate, and proves the wisdom we’ve known, all along, without the need to really cogitate, most laugh at its method and say […]
Read more "PROVEN ASSUMPTIONS"SALT ON A BIRD’S TAIL “He went to catch a dicky bird, And thought he could not fail, Because he had a little salt, To put upon its tail.” — Simple Simon The Scientific Method doubts itself and runs experiments designed to fail — run once, or twice or all the way to twelfth, […]
Read more "Salt On A Bird’s Tail"While not included in Bard Of Mars, this is a limerick tribute to Professor Sara Seager of MIT, who kindly authored the foreword to the book. She also was inspiration for the haiku above and below. Sara Seager is a planetary scientist and astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is a Professor […]
Read more "Seager, Ye Shall Find"Method A useful premise permits prediction or else it’s science fiction.
Read more "Method"The lone quantum bit, unlike Frost, chooses both paths – interferes with self. The literary reference in this haiku is to Robert Frost’s poem: The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as […]
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BARD OF MARS 