Science Poems
Volcanic Seas
Falling seas break your skin, fabricated fractures feeding flareups with deferred certainties that linger in the tuff.
Aug 6, 2021
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Sam Illingworth
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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The Forests are Dying
Perched below the tree line twisted tones emerge, groves of crooked wood that buckle at the knee.
Jul 30, 2021
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Residual Snakes
Swapping Geigers for scales we sweep the landscape for leftovers, searching for residue that clings to the surface like scalded shadows.
Jul 23, 2021
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Stabilising Cockatoos
Glassy eyes stare down from vibrant yellow crowns, solemn statues lined up for shady shopping trips to markets masked with colour.
Jul 16, 2021
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Delisted Wolves
Flecks of silver trickle through hostile grounds. Consigned to a footnote by the fervour of unbridled prey too quick to hunt.
Jul 9, 2021
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Dulled in Flames
Rising heat wrinkles your feathers,hazy offerings that prickthe skin and dull desires.Smouldering beneath the surface,your blood-streaked cloakof darkest night…
Jul 2, 2021
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Science Poetry Friday: Majestic Migration
Clouds of colour sail on ocean winds, dancing over dunes like burnished memories of distant, verdant lands.
Jun 25, 2021
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Snail Survivors
A wolf in snail’s clothingpatrols the penumbra,tentacles twitchingat the dappling of light.
Jun 18, 2021
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Rotifers on Ice
Tiny specs of whitehidden underfoot,rings of cilia lined upto blow frozen kissesagainst the earthy,dirty glass.
Jun 11, 2021
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California Haze
Crackling branchessnap in the heat,as smoke cascadeslike filthy waterfallsacross the burning embersof this heated,hated land.An unbottled genielaunched into…
Jun 4, 2021
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Toxic Seaweed
Rafts of golden browndrift across the sea,leafy suburbs providingfood,refuge,life,for the flotsam of fishthat bathe betweenyour branches.Filefish,triggerfish,crabs,and shrimpflock to your nest,caught up inpelagic matsthat bloomlike woolly rosescaught in wells.
May 28, 2021
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A Land of Darker Green
A shadow falls across this land,unseen shades that consume the lightand expose elder memoriesto the brilliance of their imperfections.Mischievous systems…
May 21, 2021
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Burning Lichen
Yellows,blues,greens, andsilversdance across theforest floor;prismic patternscascading beneaththe canopy tosaturate in shades.
May 14, 2021
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Deep Sea Plastics
Sunken in the sedimentsmudged relics protrude,translucent waste thatshimmers in its bed of filth.A menagerie of treasuresthat mark our spotin throwaway tracks:
May 7, 2021