
After the Flames
Char and cinder, the land lies burned, reduced to drifting smoke – a spectral shroud of wandering wraiths that cannot rest.
Oct 20, 2023
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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.

Char and cinder, the land lies burned, reduced to drifting smoke – a spectral shroud of wandering wraiths that cannot rest.
Oct 20, 2023

Cherry wafts upon the air – a crimson mist unfurls, greys transformed with ruddy swirls of reds and browns and smells.
Oct 13, 2023

Graceful giants roam through endless seas: searching, singing, soaring, oblivious to iron webs that glitter beneath sinking sighs.
Oct 7, 2023

Beneath twisting mangrove roots, translucent phantoms glide – hypnotic, steady beats to navigate these woody webs.
Sep 29, 2023

In the void of space, the black hole spins – drawing all matter into its cosmic, lightless wells.
Sep 22, 2023

The grasslands bake beneath a fiery sun, searing tender shoots that once sprang fresh – Indian Grass swells, covering the flesh of its fallen kin.
Sep 15, 2023

Smog’s spectre looms, choking the throats of the innocent – charcoal fingers clutching at fragile hearts.
Sep 8, 2023

The sun, a fiery iron brands the sky as sweat flows like melting wax, across the parched and cracking earth.
Sep 1, 2023

They never asked for this – swollen seas, faded lands, gasping breaths. Tiny footprints washed away by distant, heavy strides.
Aug 25, 2023

A bracelet of cosmic splendour, banded clouds wrapped tight with swirling stripes of haze to mask the rage within.
Aug 18, 2023

Towering pillars transect the plains, jagged silhouettes stretched thin against aching horizons – chestnut spots loosely patterned like broken reflections of the stars above.
Aug 12, 2023

In the icy gloom where old gods sleep, microbes lie in wait with jealous, frozen rage – aching to be freed by the warmth of our embrace.
Aug 7, 2023

In whispers of twilight the wind carries tales – murmurs of change, memories of rain that etch the canvas where life’s colours sprawl.
Jul 28, 2023

In worlds beneath waves seamounts rise from ocean floors, cobalt shadows casting spectral lures for seekers – a trove for tech a ticking threat as undercurrents swirl in the miasma of misuse.
Jul 21, 2023