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Starpoet Newsletter Vol. IX, No. III

Saturday, 19 January 2008 19:00 Last Updated on Saturday, 19 January 2008 16:25

The
Starpoet Newsletter
Volume IX, No. III

The snow melts from the trees
Hanging in the shaded branches
Clinging to the earth
Where grass and garden reside
Waiting for spring

Inside the window
Winter passes daily
As we lie warmly watching
Arm in arm in bed

Waiting for spring to arrive

Once more

Lisa Jain Thompson c. 2008 C. E.

Fiddle dee dee, Fiddle dee dum,
When do you think the newsletter should come?
Once at midnight or maybe at three,
Or sometime in the afternoon on a Sunday?

two inches of snow, the world has ended. poems and oscar and other things.

basic poet

Elemental

Kiss it is
Love

A promise

Joy and sadness
Tomorrow and forever
For the rest of our lives

My body
Yours

Living together
Sweat and passion
Sex and friendship
Now and forever

Love

Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2008

as it says

Attitude

Did you dream about me, baby?
Do I haunt the nightmares
That wake you in a sweat?

I'm sorry if I offend you,
I'm sorry if you feel threatened,

But it's not my place
To make you feel good
Or rearrange the truth
To make it easier for you to sleep.

Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2008

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

-- Oscar Wilde

science, myth, and poetry

In The Blood

Visions of my rotting, dessicated body,

Skin drawn tightly over the cheeks,

Poked and prodded by some archeological scientist
Working on her thesis for her Ph. D.

Can these be the lips
Who spoke ten thousand verses?

Can these dried sockets be the eyes

That saw galaxies still unknown?

What fearful god emptied this earthly vessel

And struck her silent in this wrathful grave?
She burned brightly as she fell sky to planet

And rivaled the sun in her glory.

Is there any DNA left we can use?

Lisa Jain Thompson

January 2008

The Slang in Oz

Tattoos hovering above the backside in the girlie spot?: arse antlers.

An obese person?: salad dodger.

That twitchy, distracted state brought on by constantly giving priority to the latest emails and text messages?: Infomania

The downloading of huge quantities of music or data onto an iPod or memory stick?: pod slurping

Storage system which is actually a bedroom floor covered with discarded clothes?: floorrobe

Adult children who refuse to leave home?: Kippers (Kids in Parents' Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings)

The phenomenon whereby individuals who belong to groups which are not well represented in leadership positions, such as women, are more likely to be found in positions which entail a greater than usual risk of failure?: glass cliff

A minor cold contracted by a man who proceeds to exaggerate the symptoms enormously?: man flu

Excessively and shallowly emotional in an extroverted way?: happy-clappy

Electronic information as by emails, internet searches, etc., which, by its volume, impairs performance and increases stress?: data smog

Biography lends to death a new terror.

-- Oscar Wilde

cnn and the paper

The News Without Illusions

Pregnant marine killed with a crowbar,
Toddler thrown off a bridge,
Bus runs off the road, fiery crash,
Mudslide threatens homes in San Diego
As a winter storm moves through the Midwest.

CIA blames others for Bhutto assassination,
White House loses emails of critical discussions,
Nobel prize winner's speech in Montana cancelled
-- Climate change is seen as anti-agricultural -
As the president dances, sword in hand, with a king.

Congress investigates steroid use in baseball,
Ignoring other sports with large, muscular players,
Football works towards the divisional play-offs
While Woody Allen writes, directs, and releases another film,
And embryos are cloned from adult human skin cells.

Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2008

I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution.
But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution
than it would be to change the word of the living God.

And that’s what we need to do
— amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards
rather than try to change God’s standards
so it lines up with some contemporary view
of how we treat each other and how we treat the family.

-- Mike Huckabee
Republican Candidate for Pontiff of the United States

aw shucks moment

Genius

Genius burns
And burns you,
Not caring

For anything or anyone

But genius.

Genius is selfish, consuming all
To feed its ravenous hunger,

Risking life to create and discover,

Unconcerned with your approval

or god's.

Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2008

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

-- Oscar Wilde

satire, humor, slapstick, whatever

Offkey Archie

This becomes much harder
If my fingers droft pff tje keys,
Especially if I'm writing poetry
With a pen inside my journal.

Because it all comes down to this:
You just never, ever know,
When the muse will decide to trick you
And feed you crap instead of gemois.

Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2008

I like persons better than principles,
and I like persons with no principles
better than anything else in the world.

-- Oscar Wilde

Sonnet by Starpoet

Life 101

Methanimine molecules and hydrogen cyanide,
A cookbook for amino acids and life everlasting,
Blatantly present a quarter billion light years from earth
In a galaxy like any other in the expanse that is the universe;
Combined with water – two hydrogen, one oxygen,
They form amino glycene, the building block that started all:
Plants, fish, insects and dinosaurs, birds, mammals, bacteria
And the primates that pride themselves in being human;
Immense quantities of potential abound in gaseous cradles
Where stars and planets in dusty lanes are born,
An ultra-luminous starburst of the ingredients for living
Omnipresent and available throughout the infinite cosmos.
Would we have need of a god who made everything and the world,
He would use these basic tools to create his handiwork.

Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2008

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

-- Oscar Wilde

starpoet unleashed

Blade Running Along The Edge

The Big Bang set the arrow of time
Fourteen Billion years ago,
So now, in this earthly abode,
We cannot unscramble an egg
No matter what the math may say.

Obviously we are more than
Some momentary fluctuation
In a field of matter and energy,
Carbon based entity as we are
In an orderly star-spangled cosmos.

But whether we exist or not
Is of little concern: I think,
We all think, holding consciousness
For a few decades of timeflow
While the theostronomers debate.

The expansion of the universe accelerates,
A cosmological fertility rite ensues,
Giving rise to lumps and bubbles
That seed the heavens evermore,
Casting doubt on infinity's shiny future.

The cosmic horizon, that feeble spray
Of elementary particles and radiation,
Glows with a fraction of a billionth of a degree
As uncertainty takes its principled stand
And defines what barely can be seen.

Flawed variations might co-reside
With the outnumbered reality we perceive,
Stirring questions of weirdness
That must need be addressed
Before we make sense of creation.

Without the baggage of stars and galaxies
Persisting in promise and disappointment,
Our world might better be clearly explained
With a plethora of warm, heart-felt treatises
Than cold eye of scientists and skeptics.

The decay of dark energy, if and when,
Would be fatal transluminally and total,
Destroying all matter, our planet, our species,
Without any warning, without any pain,
Without any survivors to remember and grieve us.

We are not prepared for this discussion.

Lisa Jain Thompson
January 2008

Copyright © Lisa Jain Thompson1995-2008. Further distribution of this newsletter in its entirety is authorized. Email your letters and postcards or visit her contact page at the Starpoet website.

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