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They were hydrogen.
He was nucleus
stable, self-contained,
she was electron
buzzing-surround
caught by attraction
held firmly in place
unable to split.
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© 1982, 2017 Betty Hayes Albright
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(re-post of a poem written in 1982)
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Posted in Poetry 1980's, tagged attraction, chemistry, humor, hydrogen atom, Love, nucleus, orbit, passion, poem, Poetry, Relationships, science, splitting atoms on July 22, 2017| 15 Comments »
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They were hydrogen.
He was nucleus
stable, self-contained,
she was electron
buzzing-surround
caught by attraction
held firmly in place
unable to split.
.
© 1982, 2017 Betty Hayes Albright
.
(re-post of a poem written in 1982)
.
Posted in Poetry 2010 - present, tagged blind faith, cause and effect, climate change, denial, drought, forest fire, nature, poem, Poetry, science on July 7, 2015| 18 Comments »
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No one went to stop the fire
all were singing in the choir
praying for the end of drought
no one put the fire out.
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(c) 2015 Betty Hayes Albright
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(photo from Wikipedia)