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Beneath Shifting Canopies
Stories etched in bark play out tales of light and shade, verdant cells of leaves and land.
Apr 21, 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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Artificial Bites at Night
They rise from the dark, a cloud of wings a swarm of hunger a thirst for us. They hover dive pierce the skin and drink their fill, leaving only their blotted note of blood – a memory of pain.
Apr 14, 2023
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Lost in Time
My body is a clock out of sync; a sparrowhawk frozen on the wire, a fish gasping in the clouded air.
Apr 7, 2023
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The Unseen Heart
Eyes close, yet the world opens. Senses heightened, our selves perceived. The heart beats, the lungs breathe.
Mar 31, 2023
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Weeding the Knots
Heart-shaped claws reveal their care – gnarled fingers buried deep in soil and brick and clay.
Mar 24, 2023
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Storms of Extinction
Feathered ghosts of winter seas tumble through the tapestry, flecks of white and pearl skirting squalls before the blizzard’s blast; wild whiteouts washing clean the ends of the Earth.
Mar 17, 2023
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Making Beelines
Guided by the light sweet sentinels fall into line, senses full of smell and sun and sky.
Mar 10, 2023
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Dirty Hearts
In hazy vapours lurk cloistered harms, toxic fumes that choke the skies with veiled, unscented threats of death.
Mar 3, 2023
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Tasting Geckos
Climbing walls and flicking tongues these lizards of the shade dance through selves, shedding scents like tails to taste the sticky prints of near and distant kin.
Feb 24, 2023
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Exotic Dangers in the Urban Forest
In concrete jungles nature’s pillars catch the city’s heat, foreign tones of green that hug the sky with firm, unrooted ease.
Feb 17, 2023
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Vanishing Stripes
Streaks of progress tar the earth, spreading concrete webs that pulse and stretch and shake.
Feb 10, 2023
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Cut out the Fireworks
A symphony of sparks echoes through the sky, lighting up the night with flaming buds that hiss and pop and roar.
Feb 3, 2023
Life
Gardeners of the Forest: Science Poetry Friday!
Rumbling roamers till the earth, treading lightly on giant feet to tend their plots with trunk and tusk and toe.
Jan 27, 2023
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Unnecessary Deaths by Fire
Artificial ignitions light the touch – flames leaping high above fiery crowns to rain heat and light and smoke.
Jan 20, 2023