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A Lungful of Flying Lead
Poison passed from paints and pans to streets and homes and lives. A build-up of bile broken only by promises of pure, mandated air.
Jan 13, 2023
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Sam Illingworth
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Sam is a Professor in Creative Pedagogies. His research is concerned with trying to engage and empower people with science, especially those from under-served communities. He writes science poems to try and communicate some of the beautiful and important scientific research that is being done on a daily basis, all across the world.
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Sunburnt Algae: Science Poetry Friday
Balls of sunken green sloshing in the seiche, velvet, bouncy growths seeking shade beneath the frosted roofs of floating, breaking glass.
Jan 6, 2023
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Deep-sea Soot
Layers of ashen swill stack and stock and soil. Discarded remnants, squandered thoughts now buried deep beneath a bitter broken sea – out of sight out of mind out of time.
Dec 30, 2022
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A Lethal Climate
The soil bursts into flame, mercury rising through fevered trends to bring another kind of heat; a frenzied force that shoots to maim and kill.
Dec 23, 2022
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Breathing Plastic
Waves break against the shore, every quiver spitting scree and scum into the warm and flawless sky; heavy mouthfuls of unseen waste that cut and prod and delve.
Dec 16, 2022
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Risky Resilience
Cloaks of brown and green huddle close to sustain shared lives and leaves, shifting in time to bend, not break with the wind – catching each blow to regulate, mature, and grow.
Dec 9, 2022
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Binding the Coast
Sunken meadows swagger in the tides, awnings of green that lurch and lean and weave.
Dec 2, 2022
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Caring Corals
Colonies of colourstretch outbeneath the sea,sessile shelters of lifewhose calcite framessway with the tideslike ribbonsin an autumn breeze.Bands of sickly…
Nov 25, 2022
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Rays of Hope
Diamond discscut the waves,spiralled finssplitting surfwith graceful sizeand measured ease.Submerged,shifted,subdued.Tracing historieswith photographs,each exposurea pinpoint;patterns of lifeagainst the safeand unmolested seas.
Nov 18, 2022
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Woody Infestation
Elongated fingers creepfrom forest floors,searching for supportto climband sheaveand choke;structural parasitesthat crisscrossthe canopiesin concurrent plansof…
Nov 11, 2022
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Shrinking Rhinos
Coveted curvesmarch into view,pointed tusks ofprotein given artificialweight by greedand sportand lust.Captured portraitsposition polygonsacross the screen…
Nov 4, 2022
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Buzzing Electricity
Hidden fields driftacross the sky,crowds of lifethat crackle with intentacross unsuspectingtones of milky bluesand scheming greys.Swarming,swerving,flitting…
Oct 28, 2022
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Shipwrecked Sediments
Remnants of warrecoilbeneath the sea,poisoned mementoesthat leechand bleedand seep.Sunken spoilsstrewn like siltover lost andbroken floors –corroded ambitionsspewing forthfrom violencethat never thoughtto fade.
Oct 21, 2022
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Washed into Dust
Closed waters breakthe shore,retreating waves that shrinkfrom view –suffocated sheetscaught in budding plantsthat runagainst the landin all its sloping…
Oct 14, 2022