Loving you

16/03/2021 – Poem a Day Compilation



The recipe for loving you seems simple

First you start with two ingredients

A little estrogen and testosterone

And let them simmer nicely

Then you add a bit of adrenaline

For that bit of kick

Followed by a splash of dopamine

To get the heart going

And just enough serotonin

For those neurotransmitters to soak up

To create a bond that lasts

We’ll throw in some vasopressin

Just to make sure everything sticks

Finally, we’re going to add a pinch of oxytocin

The ingredient responsible for those cuddles

On long, cold, winter nights

And when all those ingredients

Have had the time to mix together

The result is a bubble of love

That can never be repeated

With any other person

In exactly the same way

Potential Energy

24/08/2020 -  Poem a Day Compilation



There is a concept in science

That relates to the energy possessed

By a body by virtue to its location

Relative to that of others.



A common example can be seen

When a child is on a swing,

Being pushed by their doting parent

Without a thought for the forces at work.



The potential energy is shown

At the very top of the swing,

Just before making its descent

And transforming into the kinetic kind.



The same can be said of writers

When they have an idea form in their head

That is the top of their swing

Before the release of the writing phrase.



So, writers, don’t be afraid

If you get told that you have potential.

This means that all of that energy

Is ready to be unleashed on the world.

Compressed Universe

01/06/2020 – Iso Well-Being Compilation

 

Let’s take a wander

Through our magnificent and glorious past

As if all of time might be compressed

Into a single year of our lives.

 

Happy new year to the universe

It’s off to a tremendous start

A Big Bang and an expanding of everything

Begins us on a seemingly never-ending course.

 

Within just sixteen nanoseconds

Of our year having begun

We see the first stable nuclei form

From the matter that has been expelled.

 

By the 15-minute mark we find

The first neutral atoms have arrived

And the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Has been well and truly emitted.

 

A few days later the first stars appear,

Bright dots in an expanding cosmos

The light from which we may never see

Even with our most powerful telescopes.

 

By mid-January we can now confirm

The light of those distant stars

Will eventually reach our modern eyes

And be a source of marvel yet.

 

As the month draws to a close

The first Galaxy proto-clusters are observed

Like embryonic star groups

Finding their way in the dark.

 

Valentine’s Day whizzes past

With the largest scale structures forming then

We’re starting to look more recognizable

As the universe we will become.

 

March has rolled around by now

And we’re seeing mature galaxies form

Bright and iconic to our eyes,

Littering the depths of space.

 

Then in mid-April they start colliding

Pairs of spirals merging as one

And turning into great ellipticals

A galactic dance with no known steps.

 

We fly through May and onto June –

The first sun-like stars are dying –

Evolving into the planetary nebulae

That we all know and love.

 

The universe carries on like this

All through July and September

Creating and destroying

As it had all along.

 

On September 3^rd our sun appears

With its proto-planetary disc.

This will be our giver of life,

Where all life as we know it exists.

 

The Earth, it formed without satellites

Until it was impacted the very next day

By a large proto-planet

The debris coalescing to form our moon.

 

It was not until September 21^st

That the first life appeared on our planet –

Unicellular and, by our standards of today,

Completely unremarkable.

 

Life comes into its own

When sex appears on the scene

Though that wasn’t until December 2^nd,

Relatively, not that long ago.

 

Around December 17^th, we have the Cambrian Explosion

And life as we know it blooms.

Diversification is the rule right then

And it continues for a good, long while.

 

Extinctions come and extinctions go,

Until December 30, at 6:25am to be precise.

We lose the now beloved dinosaurs,

A meteorite strike thought to be to blame.

 

Mammals take over from that point

With the Homo Sapiens swaggering in

Just in time for New Year’s Eve,

A mere seven minutes left to spare.