Alysa

Short, feisty, artsy, crafty
Sibling of Phyllis and Sam
Lover of cats and flowers
Fears fatal errors
Needs a healthy network
Gives help where needed
Would like to see peaceful blooms and fur flying
Resident of NJ
Cummings

Abraham Lincoln

Born in Kentucky
Child of Tom and Nancy Lincoln
Lived in a log cabin
Learned his lessons by candlelight
Overcame lack of formal education
Worked as a storekeeper, railsplitter, lawyer
Challenged by a fighting nation
Personal traits were honesty and determination
Always helped those who couldn’t help themselves
Never gave up on what he thought was right
Remembered as the 16th President of the United States

What Kinds of Things Are Blue?

Blue stars are the hottest stars in the universe. While people often associate red with hot and blue with cold, as objects warm beyond the point of red hot, their color changes, eventually becoming blue. Blue stars are astronomically immense and compact, this causes them to burn their fuel expeditiously which in turn makes their temperature very sultry.  These stars often run out of fuel in only 10,000 – 100,000 years.

A blue giant is profoundly effulgent.  Like a lighthouse, they shine across a great distance.  Even though blue giant stars are infrequent, they make up many of the stars we visually perceive at night because they shine so brightly.

Blue giant stars die in a spectacular way.  They grow more astronomically immense just like the sun-sized stars, but then in lieu of shrinking and composing a planetary nebula, they explode in what is called a supernova. Supernova explosions can be more effulgent than an entire galaxy, and can be visually perceived from very far away. Because blue giant stars only live a short time, scientists utilize them to find places in outer space where incipient stars are composing. Other examples of blue things include blue crabs and the sky.

Blue crabs have blue pinchers, and humans value them highly for their succulent, sweet meat. They grow along the eastern coast of North and South America from Nova Scotia to Uruguay. Their shells are brown, and the female blue crab has red accents on its claws. Blue crabs eat practically anything that gets in the reach of their large pinchers, including fish, mussels, snails, carrion and smaller blue crabs. The shells of male blue crabs grow to 9 inches in width.

Humans perceive the sky as blue due to the scattering of sunlight. Light travels in waves, and the molecules of air in the atmosphere act as tiny prisms to disperse the light. Blue light has the shortest wavelength in the spectrum, and the air disperses it more than any other color, giving the sky a blue appearance when the sun is overhead. However, when the angle of the sun is near the horizon, the change in the viewing angle means light must pass through more of the atmosphere. The blue light disperses quickly, allowing more of the yellow and red colors to reach the observer’s eyes, giving sunrises and sunsets a red appearance.

Blue stars are astronomically immense and compact, this causes them to burn their fuel expeditiously which in turn makes their temperature very sultry.  These stars often run out of fuel in only 10,000 – 100,000 years.

A blue giant is profoundly effulgent.  Like a lighthouse, they shine across a great distance.  Even though blue giant stars are infrequent, they make up many of the stars we visually perceive at night because they shine so brightly.

Blue giant stars die in a spectacular way.  They grow more astronomically immense just like the sun-sized stars, but then in lieu of shrinking and composing a planetary nebula, they explode in what is called a supernova. Supernova explosions can be more effulgent than an entire galaxy, and can be visually perceived from very far away. Because blue giant stars only live a short time, scientists utilize them to find places in outer space where incipient stars are composing.

The Girl Behind The Trees

You better be keen, 
She’s never to be seen,
She watches for ages.
Hidden behind all the pages.
Never too big or too small
No matter what you’ll fall.
Never run never hide
You’ll still soon disappear in the night
When you see her face you get the chills
When you blink it’s like you’re on pills
Then we fall then we fall to the ground to the ground
She’s shut you up
But it’s never enough
Never enough
She’ll still come
Reaping the children reaping the children turning them to dust.
But you must keep up the fight or you’ll be gone by night.
Keep yourself out of sight or you’ll be gone by night
Yes she sees you yes she’s sees you
You had better run for it’ll be fun
It’s like playing a game.
But it all ends the same.
Reaping the children reaping the children turning them to dust.
You’ll be gone by night

Who Am I (Third Version)

I am sharp and focused
I wonder what the camera really sees
I hear the buzzing bee
I see flowers in early morning light
I want to stop time in a box
I am sharp and focused

I pretend to be a statue
I feel the shakes inside
I touch the shutter button
I worry about the blurry result
I cry that the moment has forever passed
I am sharp and focused

I understand moments in time
I say let’s freeze them forever
I dream of watercolor effects coming to life
I try to see all the soft muted edges
I hope it happens someday
I am sharp and focused

Who Am I (Second Version)

I am the eternal procrastinator
I wonder if there is a higher being
I hear the oppressive silence of lies
I see my soul being bared through poetry
I want people to realize their true potential
I am the eternal procrastinator

I pretend words don’t hurt
I feel saddened by the greedy wealthy
I touch others feelings carefully
I worry that self-consciousness will be my downfall
I cry for the oppressed
I am the eternal procrastinator

I understand world peace doesn’t exist
I say what is on my mind
I dream intolerance is obliterated
I try to put others before myself
I hope people will reform for their children
I am the eternal procrastinator

Flowers

Fragrant colours dance in the wind

Leaves relaxing in the sun’s warmth

Old petals curl up and float down to

Write on the earth the next chapter of life

Enriching the soil like a baby’s blanket

Ripening roots reaching to the eyes

Soft beauty to enlighten our lives