Day 22 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2022

Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt: “In honor of today’s being the 22nd day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2022, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a sound, a word, a phrase, or an image, or any combination of things.” Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day prompt: “[W]rite an organism poem. The really cool thing about our planet is that it is loaded with a variety of living organisms, from one-celled prokaryotes and eukaryotes to complex creatures (like blue whales and rhinos). Write about several organisms, or pick one and make it the title of your poem.” These prompts reminded me of a news story: "[S]scientists . . . have created a new biological organism that can self-replicate [and] swim through liquid, navigate through tubes, work together to collect particles into piles, heal themselves when injured, and even store information from their experience. . . . For human applications, one could envision creating bots that produce insulin, regulated by built-in sensors for glucose levels. 'We could . . . put bots into a patient to home in on areas of tissue damage such as spinal cord injury, and release regenerative compounds to help with the repair process,' said [Douglas] Blackiston," one of the project scientists. (Tufts Now). Today's poem is, as I've written several times this month, a kimo, a variation of the haiku from Israel, with three lines of 10, 7, and 6 syllables. Melding both prompts. Xenobots make more xenobots and more xenobots . . . some day they will heal humans, microscopic doctors. —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Here is a photo of a xenobot self-replicating. According to the caption, the "the 'parent' [is] colored red and the “baby” [is] green." Photo by Doug Blackiston and Sam Kriegman from Tufts Now . Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks! Ingat, everyone.  ヅ

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