Apr '13 6
Earlier this evening we watched an animation about how our complex universe evolved by following a set of defined scientific rules.

That lead me to think about how writers use language and its associated rules to bring complex worlds into being.

And thus poem number six was created. (Maybe I should rest on the seventh day.) I think this one has potential (pardon the pun) to be reworked into a good piece.

how physics and poetry collide

we are creators:
we start, uncertain
with the magic of our ideas
we combine quarky commas
electron verbs
protonic nouns
molecular sentences
craft countless worlds and universes
with their own laws
for inhabitants to understand and follow
for observers to wonder

meanwhile, physicists
take simple rules
to deconstruct our complex expanding universe
from galaxies
to stars
to us
via a periodic table
to a quantum world
where all becomes uncertain:
at Planck's levels
it's magic

Posted by Jennifer Liston

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  1. Mike says:

    *Like it Jen. Yes I think it has momentum and potential. Don't force it though. Well done.

  2. Jen says:

    *Ha MH, you speak a universal truth! Thank you. :-)

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