Science Poems
Elephants from Space
Mechanical eyes drift across horizons, capturing hidden choreographies on the patchwork cloth of your vast abode.
Jan 22, 2021
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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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Melting Lakes
Golden rays of winter’s sun pierce through the roof-shingle of the channel-sky, forbidden warmth enfolding frozen robes that shudder at the touch of an assumed advance.
Jan 15, 2021
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When the Mangroves Disappeared
Deep beneath the dunesfossilised roots whispergolden memoriesof emerald lagoons.When sapphire seaslapped tenderlyat knotted feet,bathing sunken stemswith the tidal surgeof their brackish embrace.
Jan 8, 2021
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Lunar Flow
Ancient forces dredge secretsfrom beneath the seabed,undulating stimuliunearthing memoriesof a long-buried past.
Dec 18, 2020
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Damming Loss
Returning to forsaken lands you cautiously rebuild your island homes; every log, branch, and mud pile pressed on with the precise hesitancy of re-colonised dreams.
Dec 11, 2020
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The Smell of Coral
Stony gardens of shifting light sway vibrantly beneath the waves; rainforests of the sea, whose motely splendour permeates still waters with a pale and delicate aroma.
Dec 4, 2020
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A Complexity of Life
Scattered across the seathe fossilised fingerprintsof your invisible touchproclaim the coincidenceof our lineage.A single point from whichwe all emerged…
Nov 27, 2020
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Driving into the Dreamtime: An Interview with Donald Beagle
In a change to the usual format of this blog, this post features a longform interview with the poet and scholar Donald Beagle, whose recent collection Driving…
Nov 25, 2020
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Mercury Sinking
Spat out from the murky exhalationsof our impetuous industryyou drift into the firmament,tainting its continencewith your coarse and filthy touch,trickling down ancient estuariesto nestle in the cool embraceof the approaching sea.
Nov 20, 2020
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A Rolling Wind Gathers the Moss
Spread out like a living blanket of dewy jade, the fire moss basks in its ubiquity.
Nov 13, 2020
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Shrinking Monarchs
Blown on cooling windsyour paper wingsflutter in the breeze,a murmurationof autumn leavesstretched acrossthe horizon.Stray gusts catchthe chosen few,buoyed toopportunities beyondthe reach of thesefamiliar shores.
Nov 6, 2020
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Tidal Evolution
Sailing by moonlightyou wallow in the opulenceof your oceanic abode.An illusion of permanenceconcealing the currentthat now bathes youin shameful nakedness.
Oct 30, 2020
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Bellwether Beetles
Tiny flecks of red dance across artificial rivers of powdered grain, their movements halted only by the confusing steps of a familiar other.
Oct 22, 2020
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Circles Beneath the Sea
Hidden below the waves an unknown artist plies his trade, moving purposefully to dig valleys and furrows at appealing angles that start to take shape; sculptures of sand rising from the featureless planes of a sunken seabed.
Oct 16, 2020