Sunday, January 29, 2017

Immigration Reveals Monsters


When barred for days
And the clampdown wrong,
A broken refugee protests.

A burial ground for lies exposed,
A Deadman’s buried floating on
The island of erosion

The blade of crime,
A knife has risen.
England, Freedom?

-- Adrian Martin

Boris Johnson: US immigration order divisive and wrong
Deadman's Island reveals the grisly history of Kent
Knife crime in UK cities 'turning people into monsters'

Unusual Missing Suspect


Twenty-five, drifting in water
Spotted by the military
Later rescued, people still missing

There could be more victims
A suspect of sex attacks on buses
Complaints from 6 people

Unusual debris removed
After causing a stand-still
Writing on twitter: Take Care.

-- Jessica Gajadharsingh

22 rescued, Malaysia searches for 6 others from boat sinking
Bus sex attack suspect hunted over 'despicable' assaults
Traffic brought to standstill on M1 after canoe blocks fast lane

Saturday, January 28, 2017

The Twitching Habitat


On the verge of France and California
Causing their strategy to collapse,
A tricky mechanism, a hungry bacteria.

Starlings are forced to inhibit the body
Scavenging for their habitats and lose,
Some of them have been found to go hungry.

No doubt, the birdwatch will be on
When we change our behaviour to conserve energy,
For the next stomach-distressing extinction.

-- Adriana Ciontea

Twitching to start as annual Birdwatch survey gets under way
Bacteria's sneaky way to spread by getting you to eat more
Cannibal hamsters forced to eat their own babies

The Drunk Universe


As a self-described "old drunk”
foiled by the confoundingly high pressures to create it
It’s a little surreal

I really don't see the point of getting angry
but surreal is what Balls is all about these days
It starts with the universe's big bang-for-your-buck

I do see the point of getting drunk
That would be brilliant, don’t you think?
It says they’ve cracked one more

-- Susanne S. Aase

'A truly magnificent talent:' actor John Hurt dies at 77
Ed Balls on touring with Strictly Come Dancing Live!
Solved? Cracking the code of metallic hydrogen

Super John Remembered


Gazing into midnight
everybody quiet
another hole in the heart

classic work of wonder
fond memories together
on the electrical express

Hollywood is yellow with age
time passing with powerful rocket fuel
The Elephant Man will live forever

-- Kevin Woodley

Retired manual writer remembers work on Apollo mission
John Hurt: From The Elephant Man to Harry Potter
Claim made for hydrogen 'wonder material'

Friday, January 13, 2017

That Consuming Posture


In the town's map, one dozen windmills stop.
If potent accusations of the principle can breathe,
it's the air that has beaten him back.

The younger generation seem interested.
See the genes rotate, like suspicious windmills.
They assume the mice questioning

by using lasers to launch an albatross;
but is that real hunting?
(See full experiment and video in the journal Fear.)

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Iran's Centuries-Old Windmills May Soon Stop Turning
Democrats Not Prepared to Challenge Trump
Scientists Use Lasers To Trigger Killer Instinct In Mice

Saturday, December 10, 2016

Modern Mistakes Urged


Protesters have interrupted
demonstrators who burst on to a stage
shared by “serious gaps”

protesters held posters
in front of television cameras
demanding domestic violence and human rights

Michael Gove shared air drops
with Baroness Peter Tatchell
"I shouldn't have done it in that way"

-- Rupert M Loydell

Jeremy Corbyn speech interrupted by protesters
400 people killed themselves after release from custody
Michael Gove says PM was right not to keep him

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Graph of Languages


The regime of daily speech has 57 different states,
each almost as tricky as the last.
It's possible to further slice and dice it, to make

even the opening of each syllable impossible to learn.
The aggregate swaths of fluent momentum
have us caught in the lilt of a calming new language.

(It's a mixture of "uhs" and "ums.")
If it could speak, it might say, "Come on, people,
make stuff up about me! Among other topics."

-- Glenn R. Frantz

LinkedIn aims to take the guesswork out of salary negotiations
America's modest success in Syria, and why it's under threat
Lindsay Lohan Explains Her Unusual New Accent

Thursday, October 13, 2016

With Vibrating Uncertainty


induce while, immersing? and cloud lilting it
added combination for. wells in made a the immersion the
can? one the entrancing where removes you is arrangement

trance. simultaneously on honking, goose for
sing who, launching? but swarms flying they
launch. somewhere behind unique, duck with

might? possessed the releasing where turns them are song
called rings from. game for released a the noises the
continue while, transforming? or form infinite they

-- Glenn R. Frantz

PlayStation VR's best game is 15-year-old musical shooter
First birds didn't sing like larks but HONKED like geese
Wells Fargo CEO Exit Wins Over Analysts

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Over An Echo


The voice-centred jets were about comet homework;
they are preparing for comment, like about a comet,
the period seen around their back.

Time's devices watched the unnamed speaker,
in clockwork outbursts, echo, like about
repeatability to parts and origins, or rotation of

synchronised cameras around similar connected television.
The voice anticipated the taking (from the next voice),
yet from time's thermostat, surprise flows like weather.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Summer fireworks on Rosetta's comet
Clinton, Trump Take Different Approaches to Debate Prep
Apple Moving Forward With Amazon Echo Rival

Thursday, September 01, 2016

Layered Geographic Pictures


in a foreign country
tiny noodles lick an iceberg
with uncommon modesty

(the noodles, not the iceberg, which its admirers call
"The Greenstone," made famous by "School of Rock"
and other films about geologists)

cone-shaped microbes ricocheted from the seafloor
sampling fossilized ship's food from the Titanic
in a luxury undisturbed by pop culture sediment

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Could these be the world's oldest fossils?
How Much Do You Know About the Titanic?
'Lick your screen': China's press fawn over Trudeau

Friday, August 12, 2016

Developments Actually Develop


springboard were first first the springboard in first
cactus but the cactus secret secret cactus cactus
cache and the cache cactus cactus cache cache

bells sprung a vanished it just to just bells bells
tap both a bounced they once against once tap tap
cactus secret a flubbed she again of again cactus cactus

flower and the flower hostile hostile flower flower
rivals were secret secret the rivals in secret
dynamo were laughing laughing the dynamo in laughing

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Putin Fans the Flames in Ukraine Once Again
What Makes Simone Biles Unlike Any Other Gymnast
Dynamo, Cactus Flower, Tondero Back Fuentes-Leon

Thursday, July 21, 2016

That Symbiotic Innuendo


It rained reliably, which provides
a widening metaphor for the dark years
and an automobile for overshadowing the embarrassment.

We're only looking for that symbiotic innuendo
that makes lead into gold, or speech into music.
Driving around listening to

the late karaoke host Dakota Swift,
we didn't find the elusive Invisible University --
maybe since it's invisible?

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Scientists looking for invisible dark matter can't find any
Michelle Obama's Glorious, Savvy 'Carpool Karaoke' Clip
Ted Cruz Reopens Party Wounds on Dramatic RNC Convention Night