Science Poems
Better than Earth
Mechanical eyes sweep immeasurable skies, searching for life with boundaries pre-defined by the limitations of their homely existence.
Oct 9, 2020
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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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Zombie Fires
Buried beneath the snow line,these smouldering corpsesbegin to glow.Forgotten fires,whose reanimated embersburn brightlyacross the tundra;frozen bodies recoilingat the heatof their undying embrace.
Oct 2, 2020
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Wild Offerings
Torn from the skywe clipped your wingsto buy safe passage;broken bodieslovingly preservedwith a tendernessdenied in flight.
Sep 25, 2020
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Symbiotic Senses
We live on a mesh of invisible lines, the rigidity of attraction softly veiled by the faintness of touch; gentle come-hithers undone by the subtlety of their approach.
Sep 18, 2020
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Rediscovered Frogs
Across tropical concert halls,the air vibrates with thesound of a thousand voices;a living orchestraconcealing its declinewith the vivacityof each performance.Its muted notes lostbeneath the canopy.
Sep 11, 2020
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At Loggerheads with the Storm
This poem is inspired by recent research, which has found that loggerhead sea turtles were able to detect and respond to a major hurricane in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.
Sep 4, 2020
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An Outbreak of Flooding
Struggling beneath the weightof accumulation you bucklein the rains;a surplus of backwashbaptising you with thefilthy discharge of athousand vanquished drains.
Aug 28, 2020
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The Tragedy of the Bees
Weighed down by the delightsof an afternoon’s jumbled scavengingyou zigzag drunkenly across the sky;tumbling through monoculturesto the wild abandonof your uncultivated home.
Aug 21, 2020
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Science poetry Friday: Artificial Galaxies
This poem is inspired by recent research, which has applied artificial intelligence (AI) to finding and classifying galaxies.
Aug 14, 2020
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The Quiet Sun
This poem is inspired by recent research, which has found that even during a solar minimum, our sun is still extremely active.
Aug 7, 2020
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The Mortality of Trees
Ancient trees in the Bristlecone Pine Forest of the White Mountains in California, which are over 4,000 years old (Image Credit: Rick Goldwasser [CC BY 2.0] /…
Jul 31, 2020
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Forecasting Drought
Ghostly quilts of verdant fieldsshimmer in the braying heat,picked bare by arid guststhat rattle through the landscapewith malicious intent;a rank, distorted echoof where life once flowed.
Jul 24, 2020
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Roadside Pollination
This poem is inspired by recent research, which has found that better-managed road verges can help boost the effectiveness and conservation of pollinating insects.
Jul 17, 2020
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Plastic Lobsters
This poem is inspired by recent research, which has found that lobster larvae are harmed by microplastic pollution in the ocean.
Jul 10, 2020