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This is a question poem that I wrote for a Creative Writing class I am taking this semester! I am a Chemistry major in school, but I thought I'd take advantage of some of my free summer credits to take a fun class. Not that chemistry isn't fun as you can see by the fact that I decided to write about it! I often look at the world around me and ponder the chemical and biological processes that are going on and wanted to convey that in my poem!
Have you ever tried to follow the 
Motion of electrons
the 
Vibration of the molecules
that make up the world?
Have you ever looked around you
and seen the
 Expansion of marshmallows
the 
Cracking and Snapping 
of firewood burning
as tiny little processes
carried out by 
Biological Machines?
that run in a matter and 
a fashion so
Fascinating 
and so 
Complex
they can no longer be
Described by the 
Models We Concoct 
to explain the world around us.
and if you've ever done so
Have you ever really wondered
How all this is
Possible?
How something so small
can make changes so 
Significant?
How one tiny change in a 
twisting 
Strand of DNA 
can bring
Calamity and Disaster 
or a miracle 
that brings
us a just little closer
to the 
Perfectly created being?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020



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Date: 6/13/2020 3:54:00 PM
Interesting write, and science should ask questions ... I was a Molecular Physics Major, so I am drawn to similar musings, (have posted a few here). Keep those wheels spinning!
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Date: 5/27/2020 6:07:00 PM
Lovely musings from the Scientific Poets' Society! Enjoyed this very much, Heather, a Chemistry by the Campfire moment! Even when you take a break from Chem courses, you are still writing about vibrations of molecules and strands of DNA. Have you ever considered a career in engineering? The profession could use more good female engineers, with the one disadvantage that you'd have to spend a lot of time around male engineer nerds like me! God bless you, my poetry friend ~ John
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