The Word in Focus with Dr Larry Taylor

Sustained resonating bass note

Rumbles across exploding star factories

That must, before quitting time,

Manufacture the elements of life that

Vibrate in every cell and tentacle. 

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Undulating forms of softly drifting sorrow

Swirling colors of melancholic joy and

Symphonies of silent tenderness

Unite to form majestic mountains and

Aqua seas where whales play.

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Snow and ice

Wind and rain

Vapor clouds as

Fumaroles shift and

Rainbow paint pots boil.

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Lower Geyser Basin Mushroom Pool 

Clear stillness bacterium 

Sequences the genetic map of life

Phytoplankton fills the house of Neptune 

With the bread of life

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Tiny Blackburnian Warbler flits in

Treetops and shrubs playing 

Hide ‘n seek with birdwatchers

While the bald eagle swoops

Fish to its young.

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Cascading falls grace the pines with

Misty rainbows of kindness as

Rapids below explode in joyful dance

Singing its way to Oceanus, primordial water

Vitality and eternal life.

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Mother Earth, Grandfather Tree

Salty sea, budding rose

Quasar and Nova 

Sperm whale and squid

We are One.

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