It's Not A Cookie-Cutter World by Rick Doble

 It's Not A Cookie-Cutter World  

This principle of change or movement prevents nature from ever really repeating herself... 

The History of Scientific Ideas, Charles Singer

(Text, research & design by Rick Doble. Photos and images from commons.wikimedia.org except as noted.)

 Water molecules* 

 are the same 

 yet every 

 snowflake 

 is different 

(Left photo by Rick Doble)

 every 

 leaf 

(By Rick Doble)

 every 

 person 

The newly photographed moon of Pluto, Charon (NASA).

 planet or moon 

Our sister galaxy Andromeda.

 & galaxy 

*While there are two other isotopes of water, normal water (H2O) makes up 99.76% of water.

Halloween And The Dead by Rick Doble

 HALLOWEEN & THE DEAD 

(Text & design by Rick Doble. Photos and images from commons.wikimedia.org except as noted.)

 In the West 

 we bury our dead 

 in separate cities 

 to keep them 

 at a safe distance 

 except on Halloween 

 when the dead 

 are invited 
 out 

 for a day 

 to 

 celebrate 

Intuition Is The Gift, Reason The Servant by Rick Doble

  Intuition Is The Gift,  

  Reason The Servant  
(Text, design & research by Rick Doble. Photos and images from commons.wikimedia.org except as noted.)

There comes a point where the mind takes a leap 

— call it intuition or what you will — 

and comes out upon a higher plane of knowledge, 

but can never prove how it got there. 

All great discoveries have involved such a leap.

Albert Einstein

Rembrandt's etching of Dr. Faustus in his study, 

receiving an inspirational understanding.

 Before he called it "gravity" 

 before he did the math 

 Newton knew 

 what held things together 

From Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)

in which he gave a detailed explanation of the forces of gravity.

 Before relativity 

 before his equations 

 Einstein 

 imagined chasing 
 a beam of light 

 and understood - 

 what would take him a decade 

 to prove on paper 

Einstein's universe in which space itself is affected by gravity.

Eureka by Rick Doble

      EUREKA      

(Text, design & research by Rick Doble. Photos and images from commons.wikimedia.org except as noted.)

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility …

The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

 Some live 

 for the apple moment: 

 When Isaac Newton 

 saw in a flash 

 that apple and moon 

 were one 

 and the same 

 Pythagoras hearing 

 the harmony 

 of 

 blacksmith's hammers 

 Archimedes 

 taking a bath 

 Kandinsky 

 seeing the world 

 abstractly 

 from a painting upside down 

 Einstein 

 chasing a beam of light 

 The Universe 

 split open 

 for a second 

 to let 

 one small creature 

 SEE 

Everyone Lies: Law & Order by Rick Doble

 LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT 

 Quote from Bobby, Detective Robert Goren, played by Vincent D'Onofrio

(Text, research & design by Rick Doble. Pictures from commons.wikimedia.org)

 "Everyone lies" 

 Bobby says 

Illustrations from "Le Avventure di Pinocchio, Atoria di un Burattino" 

(The Adventures of Pinocchio, Story of a Puppet), 

Carlo Collodi, Bemporad & Figlio, Firenze 1902. 

Caption: Pinocchio and Candlewick turn into donkeys.

 but if true, 

 most believe 

 their own stories 

 and most 

 are unaware 

 of their hidden lives 

CLIMATE CHANGE by Rick Doble

  CLIMATE CHANGE  

(Text by Rick Doble. Photos and images from commons.wikimedia.org except as noted.)

 Will future generations 

 say they had to 

 "endure the unendurable 

 suffer what is insufferable"* 

 when deserts 

 take our farms 

 and oceans 

 flood our cities? 

*From Japanese Emperor Hirohito's speech to the Japanese people, explaining what the Japanese people must expect after he ordered a surrender to the Allied Forces in WW II, August 15, 1945.

Depravity Of Human Beings by Rick Doble

  DEPRAVITY  

by Rick Doble

 The 

 depravity 

 of human beings 

WWII Europe, Germany, Concentration Camps: 
"Two men sitting after liberation from Lager-Norhausen Death Camp." 
Caption & photo from commons.wikimedia.org

 is only 

 matched 

For 18 years in segregated South Africa, "Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in a damp concrete cell measuring 8 feet (2.4 m) by 7 feet (2.1 m), with a straw mat on which to sleep" (photo far left) and then made to do hard labor. He served a total of 27 years in prison. Upon his release at the age of 71, he became the first black president and forgave those who had imprisoned him (middle photo) and who had assumed prison life would kill him. He then embarked on a policy of national reconciliation with these words: "Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace."
Quotes and photographs from commons.wikimedia.org

 by our 

 generosity, 

 our 

 compassion 

To read my thoughts about Haiku-like poetry 
please go to this page:
http://haiku--like.blogspot.com/2015/09/about-haiku-like-poetry-by-rick-doble.html