Best Curie Poems

Marie Curie, the radiant,
In wits and style above the gradient.
Declared she that wigs would be "in"
Along with glowing skin....

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You had to have been in your element
Or should I say
Your element was born in you, without argument
Your birthday is today
Who needs words and the drudgery of numbers
When facts can make sweet revelation
And light pours of metals in radiation
Of secrets in the nucleus to match...

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She didn't shatter the glass ceilings,
she shattered the sky
and stars fell in her lap.
They barred her from science clubs
but she built her own constellations.

She arrived in Paris hungry for knowledge
fed herself with formulas
and ambition was satiated.
They gave her frostbitten ceilings
but she warmed them with equations.

She...

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