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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
4 months ago

Veins of red lightning
Hammered into shape, an art
Practiced to this day

#OreCup #MinPoem #copper

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
4 months ago

Countless places copper shines
Old artifacts to power lines
Pennies in lemon batteries
Pots and pans to heat with ease
Ethernet, plumbing, jewelry, art
Recycling to a new bright start

#OreCup #MinPoem #TeamCopper

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
5 months ago

Two crystals, both alike in dignity
In fair October, when they must compete
From ancient mountains metamorphically
And from the blood of reindeer on the sleet

#MinCup25 #MinPoem

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
6 months ago

Roses are silver
Landscapes are red
Classic is lovely
When all's done and said

#MinCup25 #MinPoem #hematite

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
6 months ago

Grape-like bunches are called "botryoidal"
Fractures curvy are called "subconchoidal"
Crystals called "tabular"
Look rather slabular
"Boring"? Don't make me annoyedal

#MinCup #MinPoem

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
6 months ago

#MinCup25 #MinPoem #hematite

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
6 months ago

Like a mariner, a viking, do explore
On an odyssey of curiosity
Insight of a phoenix lets us hope for more
Perseverance with each opportunity

#MinCup25 #MinPoem #hematite #Mars

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
6 months ago
Long pointed dioptase crystals of deep green interspersed in glittery white quartz. Attribution: Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0

Long pointed dioptase crystals of deep green interspersed in glittery white quartz. Attribution: Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0

White calcite rhomboid crystals covered in chunky little dioptase crystals so green they could almost be glowing. Attribution: Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0

White calcite rhomboid crystals covered in chunky little dioptase crystals so green they could almost be glowing. Attribution: Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0

Dioptase, quartz, and calcite
Each shine on their own in the light
But what's even more swell:
They get along well
Share a vein in this mineral fight!

#MinCup25 #MinPoem

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
6 months ago

When the sun fades, I fade
Though a snowy sparkle stays
When the sun's bright, I'm bright
Sudden waking, warm as life

#MinCup25 #tugtupite #MinPoem

22 10 1 1
Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
6 months ago

A planet strange to see if we could
For curiosity's sake
Not far away, just long ago
And not one good breath could we take
There were oceans, yes, and life of a kind
Though nothing to talk to or meet
But just maybe enough to alter a world
Leaving traces that lie at our feet

#MinCup25 #MinPoem

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
6 months ago

I want to live in a cartoon world
Where the detectives are keen
What matters stands out from the background
And what's radioactive is green
I want science to win in the end
Unmasking what couldn't be seen
This world isn't always so nice, but this once:
What's radioactive is green

#MinCup25 #MinPoem

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
6 months ago

From classic white and yellow
To gray, hot pink, and green
Calcite has variety
The likes you've never seen
From the massive single crystals
To the glitter of a druse
From flowers to stalactites
You know the vote to choose

#MinCup25 #MinPoem #Calcite

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
6 months ago

#MinCup25 #MinPoem

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
6 months ago

Find your way down
Lights reveal on your way:
Orange, red, brown
White, yellow, and grey

#MinCup25 #MinPoem

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
6 months ago

The clearest of calcite I crave
For historically speaking, it gave
A view of refraction
With quite a reaction:
Learning that light is a wave

#MinCup25 #MinPoem

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
7 months ago

You can tell I'm excited about #MinCup25 because I wrote a #MinPoem out of season.

#TeamCalcite

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
1 year ago

Art by no hand, made for all
By water on the limestone wall
Drip by drip, with forms it fills
With chandeliers and mushroom gills
Food of fae and melting wax
Calcite carving through the cracks
A castle of another kind
Underground and in your mind

#MinCup24 #MinPoem #calcite

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
1 year ago

Ringing the land
Equator alive
Erosion prevention
For this we strive

#MinCup #MinPoem #calcite #coral

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
1 year ago

Calcite deserves more than poems, so I'm working on a song. In the meantime though, here's a trilobite haiku:

The dawn of vision
Roly-poly refraction
World of light unlocked

#MinCup #MinPoem #calcite #fossils #biology

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
1 year ago

Qualitatively a classic
Ubiquitous in grains of sand
All colors, so eclectic
Rhaetian shock in late Triassic
The king of silicates' command
Zings piezoelectric

#MinCup #MinPoem #quartz

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
1 year ago

Sphere, stalactite, fibrous fracture
With no need to manufacture
What candied kiwi can fluoresce?
Consider well, and vote your guess
Blue in ultraviolet light
Or yellow glows the #wavellite!

#MinCup #MinPoem

10 5 2 0
Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
1 year ago

What would the world be if it weren't for calcite?
Without marble, there's no Winged Victory
Without limestone, you can't be in the limelight
Without chalk, no Dover cliffs at sea

#MinCup #MinPoem #calcite

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
1 year ago

Cast in soft light
All shapes pleasant
Veins of calcite
Ever-present

#MinCup #MinPoem

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
1 year ago

I know I'm early, but I'm so eager for calcite to appear that I'm going to share a #MinCup #MinPoem from last year right now.

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
1 year ago

In the deep crust, a wedge crystallizes
Information inside tantalizes
Like zircon before
Always keeping the score
From Tartarus, titanite rises

#MinCup #MinPoem

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
1 year ago

Twinkle, twinkle, mercury
How could mineral you be?
Exchange the questions, one for one
Without the oddballs, where's the fun?

#MinCup #MinPoem #mercury #AliceInWonderland #MadHatter

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
1 year ago

When a mineral names its own hue
And in word games enables a Q
The Southwesterners know
In a mineral show
Voting #turquoise is just what to do!

#MinCup #MinPoem

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Dots and Lines
Dots and Lines
@dotsandlines.bsky.social
1 year ago

Arid lands
To salty seas
Artists' pigment
Copper's child
Artifacts
Made verdant green
In Liberty
To places wild
Entrant new to #MinCup scene

#MinPoem

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