Poem – AFTER THE FACT (By Ray Gallucci)

  AFTER THE FACT   The mystery of history Reduces all to sophistry If fecklessly, not skeptically, Accept we its validity.   Did Kennedy form strategy Preventing Cuban tragedy When quarantined Fidel at sea? Or was it serendipity?   Did atom bomb need dropping on To-be-defeated-soon Nippon, Because Japan, to its last man, Would fight invasion hand-to-hand?   Was Civil […]

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Poem – Crimean Punishment (By Ray Gallucci)

CRIMEAN PUNISHMENT   Apparently,once the gods had fumed Atgrowing decadence, they were doomed. Nolonger culture pre-eminent, Atlantisunder the sea was sent.   Competingtheories have been put forth Ofancient civilization north Ofwhere the Black Sea has always lain Ononce quite fertile Crimean plain.   Onefaction claims Plato had it right – Atlantisvanished in just one night Whenearthquake cracked geologic flaw Releasingdeluge […]

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Poem – “FOUR” CAST (By Ray Gallucci)

  “FOUR” CAST   The earth’s been here four billion years, But humans mere four million. How often has the atmosphere Received a “global killing?”   Have comets many seared the skies, Volcanoes oft erupted? What oceans parched till desert-dry And climates left disrupted?   How many times has planet warmed, Engorged with greenhouse gasses, While glaciers melted and reformed […]

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Poem – CLICHÉD (By Ray Gallucci)

  CLICHÉD   Beggars can’t be choosers, For there is no choice for losers, And as paupers we must stand with open hand. Seeing is believing, But can also be deceiving When you’re grieving that you’re down and out again.   Cruising for a bruising, If you’re thin-skinned, makes excusing Your intrusions not so simple of a chore. Striking while […]

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Poem – HOTAND COLD (By Ray Gallucci)

  HOTAND COLD   Perhaps 100million years To rise from naught, then disappear Above the Hot Spot in the Earth That to Hawaiian Chain gave birth.   The oldest now perhaps just stumps, Once mountains proud, now merely bumps Long passed from magma cauldron where They first broke through the surface there.   The youngest rise majestically For miles above […]

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Poem – WOBBLEDEHOY (By Ray Gallucci)

  WOBBLEDEHOY* {Bolide impact at the K-T [Cretaceous-Tertiary]boundary. There is widespread belief that bolide impact wasthe major killing mechanism at the K-T boundary [that reputedly killed thedinosaurs].  The GTME [Gravity Theory of Mass Extinction] asserts that it was not and that the impact was an indirect result ofthe primarily longitudinal movement of the continental tectonic plates asPangea broke apart, [inducing] … […]

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