Tag: Poem

Today’s poem is from Law & Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union. Tricia Dearborn Making Pipettes Rolling the hollow rod above the bunsen, blue flame glowing orange where fire embraces glass, turning it in the fingertips watching for something almost ineffable, the particular shine that denotes a particular malleability. Then taking…

Today’s poem is from Earthly Matters: biology & geology poems, published by The Poets Union. Michael Sharkey And So Good Night Curious right to the end, Lavoisier ordered a friend to make sure to look close at his eyes when the blade had just severed his head. He told him he’d blink if he had…

Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems, published by The Poets Union. Magdalena Ball Six Flavours of Quark Up, down strange, charmed bottom and top, that’s the six. You know them; mapped them; found them when no one else even thought to look. I see them lined in pretty rows well, not…

Today’s poem is from Law & Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union. Gerry Jacobson Geotanka walking past a pile of rocks glinting in morning sunlight only I know it’s calc-silicate hornfels of Ordovician age dark hidden outcrop by the lake – Silurian limestone – lingering remnant of the Limestone Plains imprint…

Today’s poem is from Earthly Matters: biology & geology poems, published by The Poets Union. Annamaria Weldon Petrichor Petrichor, scent of first rainfall on rock, sedge, sand and trees along this salt-marsh shore of flooded gums, layers of eucalypt oil rinsed free releasing its high-pitched tang. Lower, sultry odours of soaked bark, full throat-catching cyanobacterial…

Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems, published by The Poets Union. Tricia Dearborn Everything we’re made of comes from earth; we cry, returning borrowed salt; we give our bone and muscle back to the earth to suck, as ash, as rotting flesh: that calcium atom in your skull — star-fired, congealed…

Today’s poem is from Law & Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union. Magdalena Ball 10 digits of e tracing the slope of your tangent around a bell curve the irrationality of your decimal expansions left me breathless there was no room for doubt in the ice of your bedroom and watched…

Today’s poem is from Earthly Matters: biology & geology poems, published by The Poets Union. Martin Langford The Silence of the Frogs So many silences. Wharves. Or the silence of caves. The silence of big skies. Of forests. Of sunlight on carpet. The silence of frogs. You hear it round Sydney: wherever the soil has…

To celebrate National Science Week we’ll be publishing a science poem of the day this week. The poems are from the Science Made Marvellous series of poetry books published in National Science Week in 2010 by The Poets Union. The three books are: Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems (1.2MB PDF) Earthly Matters: biology &…