James Philip Kotsybar started the hypno-musical Versonics: The Verse That Can Happen which performed at L.A.'s Llhasa Club, Beyond Baroque Gallery and The Performing Arts Center, with recordings later broadcast on KCSB 91.9 FM in Santa Barbara. He merited publication in 2AM Magazine, Prophetic Voices, Poetic Justice, and various small press literary journals. He founded and sponsored R.A.I.L. (Readers And Interested Listeners), which combined featured poets with open-mike readings and became a part of the Santa Barbara Poetry Festival. Invited back to KCSB radio to read his poetry on the programs The Art Of Peace and Music Soup, he continued as a regular monthly guest on Music Soup for a year. Currently he is producing videos of his poetry for the Santa Barbara Television Channels (Channels 17 & 21) and website (sbchannels.net). He co-owns Chaotic Exotics orchid nursery where he breeds his own orchids for sale, and is an accredited judge for the American Orchid Society.

201. Breaking Symmetry

Our universe has things in it because Chance quantum fluctuations enable. Nothing is what violates Nature’s laws – Something is apparently more stable. Super-symmetry was asking for it. It was just too perfect to be withstood, And once it took the predictable hit It lit up the entire neighbourhood, And in that Big Bang, the [...]

177. Visionary, by James Kotsybar

He looked into the lens-system and saw an unimaginably small world grow. Now does this image in history draw from van Leeuwenhoek or Galileo? Through lenses both passed to another realm in essence, since their broadened reference frame allowed them visions that could overwhelm. Then for everyone nothing stayed the same. The vaster one’s view [...]

164. Physics Model

Physics is a strange, secular mistress who spends her time with concepts and with laws. These she embellishes with equations, and revisions are made (some with distress) oft’ to include experimental flaws which lead to whole other realizations. She makes Order’s bed and goes off to War – very constant is her uncertainty – her [...]

161. Survival of the witless

When fire, water, earth and air were thought to be the elementals that composed all matter, folks did not become distraught at what avant-garde chemists then proposed. Most understand that the Earth is a sphere (with only one natural satellite); no matter where folks sail they do not fear they’ll reach the edge and fall [...]

159. San Grail? Sangria?

From humblest manger beginnings, He grew a wit to teach the Temple’s teachers, but in His age, the sad reality: The world was rife with prophets and preachers. He was a novelty, a prodigy – received as well then as such are today – childlike, unsettling ‘Od’ity and Upstart Who crossed all class boundary. Until [...]

153. Quantum melody

Below subatomic, the particles slip through Heisenberg’s uncertainty nets. They cannot even be called articles; they’re just mathematical epithets. Though we may say they have up or down spins (we may even find them charming or strange), like angels that dance on the heads of pins, it takes metaphysics to find their range. They have [...]

139. Illuminated

Dmitry has been kind enough to offer me space here.  I hope I can live up to being the bard of physics. I may include verse dealing with other sciences such as biology.  I hope it continues to amuse all who happen here. James Ph. Kotsybar The physicists in their studies transcribe formulae that define [...]