Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Science

“Faith” is fine invention (202)

                                           BY EMILY DICKINSON

“Faith” is a fine invention

For Gentlemen who see!

But Microscopes are prudent

In an Emergency!

Midweek Motif ~ Science

Time to write to things Scientific and observable in Labs.   

Let us see what science can do.

Between 4 lines and 14 ~ Form is up to you.  

Inspiration:     Warning!  As a Romantic, Poe was not a fan of science.

Sonnet—To Science

                                      BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!

   Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.

Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart,

   Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?

How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,

   Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering

To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,

   Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?

Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car,

   And driven the Hamadryad from the wood

To seek a shelter in some happier star?

   Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,

The Elfin from the green grass, and from me

The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

Sonnet Parody of Poe’s “To Science”        

With gratitude for Poe’s vision and visions

By Susan Chast

Science!  True Sister of Poetry thou art!

You nurture all being by opening eyes!

And compliment modern poets’ hearts,

White dove, whose wings are open files!

Why should they hate thee? Or how deem thee weird,

Who wouldst aid them in their questing

Throughout and beyond  planets’ atmospheres?

How could they deny using thy virtual wings?

Hast thou not lifted God into place?

And driven out the Devil from the deep earth

So that inquiry and simile meet face to face?

Hast thou not found atoms in what was a dearth

Of matter, power in what was mere sun, and to me

Given insight into how conflicts mock liberties?

~

Please:  

1.      Post your science  poem of 4 ~ 14 lines on your site, and then link it here.

2.      Share only original and new work written for this challenge. 

3.      Leave a comment here.

4.      Honor our community by visiting and commenting on others' poems.

(The next Midweek Motif is Mayday Eve or Walpurgisnacht.)

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Poets United Mid-Week Motif ~ Love

 “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, 

         in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” 

― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets 

Today’s motif:  Love

What did love seem to be at age 16?  And now?  Let your mind swirl through the years of your life, and pick One Age to speak from in Fourteen Lines. 

This could be a sonnet or any form or non-form you wish.  If you decide to write a ballad, the fourteen lines do not apply.

(If romantic love is not on your mind and Valentine's Day seems far away, consider the month of February and its significance in your life.)  

Here's a ballad by Sonia Sanchez:

Ballad

  by Sonia Sanchez

         (after the spanish)

forgive me if i laugh

you are so sure of love

you are so young

and i too old to learn of love.

the rain exploding

in the air is love

the grass excreting her

green wax is love

and stones remembering

past steps is love …

- See the rest at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19520

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1. Post your 14-line poem or ballad on your site, and then link it here.
2. Share only original and new work written for this challenge. 
3. Honor our community by visiting and commenting on others' poems.

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