Best Sciencelight Poems
Astronomers maintain that we came from the sun;
Cast out from a whirling cloud of flammable gas;
Bearing on until all the solar system was spun;
Forming bodies as the whirling became a rushing mass.
Yet after billions of years our source is yet unknown,
According to these researchers even at this day.
To them we took flight like a white hot stone
And soared and circled in a beautiful display.
But believers know by Moses the first great plan;
How heaven and earth came in the beginning,
When there was no light until God’s command,
And no high energy vapors turning and spinning.
John said that light was the life of men;
A true light that came shining into the darkness.
A shining the darkness was unable to comprehend,
Because its understanding lacked needful fitness.
Moving below the vernal earth bathed in the light--
This light which had not yet established a source--
Whose effect meant the cause would soon be in sight,
When God would enthrone the sun without remorse.
He gave it dominion over the sky of the day;
Thus the sun became our great light bearer,
Whose golden gift brightens the day travelers’ way,
And often leads man’s quest for wisdom into error.
...
What am I?
My filament is very fine
The first was made from wire.
Sir Humphrey Davy thought of me.
He used platinum. Yes, he was inspired!
My first glow show was in England, 1801.
But I cost so much and my spark was short.
Very few could or would afford to buy one!
Eight years later, Davy got his patent for an
arch- lamp, which from charcoal rods gives.
light! Small. Intense. Use Caution… parch!
Wait, there’s more! We must soon applaud
1878 Joseph Wilson Swan's carbon paper
filament light bulb was no mystery.
His British Patented made history.
Meanwhile, back in the U.S.
In 1879 after years of work,
Thomas Edison, whom
I love dearly, invented
my much adored
ancestor. The
2,000-hour
incandescent
Light bulb!
I hope you
Were right.
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 24, 2010