Copernicus Poems | Examples

Nicholaus Copernicus is so Weird

Nicolaus Copernicus claimed the earth orbits the sun
Other fourth graders joked about it and made lots of fun.
His parents were embarrassed by their weird decisive child.
His theories changed understanding of the universe. Isn’t that wild?

wrong

Have you ever been wrong?
I was wrong.
Ugly, smugly wrong.
Psephologically wrong.
Hit the iceberg,
smoking’s good for you,
the treaty of Versailles,
left on red,
Copernicus, Aristotle, Custer,
wrong.
I’m not claiming an excuse,
wrong.
It wasn’t you,
it was me,
wrong.
Just fricking
kiss a frog
wrong.
Wrong all along,
wrong about the world,
reevaluate me wrong,
wrong, wrong, wrong.
I can admit I was wrong.
Can you forgive me,
can I forgive me,
wrong
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Songs for this:
Waters of March by John Roseboro & Mei Semones
Stabilise by Nilüfer Yanya
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Webster: Psephology = the scientific study of elections.

Concentric Circles

Lift your celestial gaze to be amazed in Wonder
As has Ptolemy, then Copernicus and Kepler after
Who are the capricious Gods who dance in wander
To revere Mercury? Venus? Mars? Saturn? Jupiter? 

Ptolemy imagined a play staged at his own residence
There the Gods heaved upon us all their vain existence
Trapped by Humanity's Ego, blind to exposed evidence
His glowing Hearth lifting higher embers of negligence

Copernicus heralded the inspirational spark of sacred denial
Orbits dared to be spun into the ire wrath of Church reprisal
Hush your Truth.  Mankind cannot, will not be the Sun's disciple
Calculations implore?  Observations explore?  ASTRONOMICAL!!!

Kepler awoke to his divine intervention lifting the veil of Dogma
He questioned atop ashes of descent burned without anesthesia
A revolution uproar of Ellipses stretching in variable speed inertia
The Gravity of his Truth pulling inextricably at undisputable raw data

The moral of this recounting is to shun the fantasies touted by Elves
Be wise.  Be curious.  Gather the courage to see Truth for yourselves

Knowledge

Knowledge honed by time
Copernicus theory vouge
Being receive now.

Ego

You never ignore yourself.
You....a finger pointing nowhere.
You flap; make waves,
what else you got?
A flashy kite with no sky
that's what.

If a vulture and a jellyfish
gave birth to an offspring,
they would name it: Ego.

A monstrously beautiful blob was told
what it was and was not,
the term, 'monstrous blob,'
was, of course, never mentioned.

Identity rose up like a hissing cobra,
the blob believed what it was told.
First thoughts set like concrete.

Ego always thinks that everyone is against him,
even when they are applauding him,
it was always nothing more than an airbag,
that could be easily inflated or deflated.

Great and talented egos arose:
Gehgis Khan, Aristotle, Starlin, Copernicus
Mozart, Julius Caesar, and, of course, you -
all sprung from that parent trap.
The good the bad, the oppressed
and victors, all the winged jellyfish
floating through time
and most everyone
never once ignoring themselves -
not for one moment.

Fly away eagle, swim away jellyfish,
heaven and hell were always inside us,
and we never guessing,
that we were this monstrously beautiful
bag of wind always likely to burst,
if one day
we got lucky.

Eureka

Eureka - a love song Tanka series
~ art by Edward Burne-Jones ~

It's a fair question:
as you smile that smile, you ask
how much I love you…
"You are constant as the sun
   ...and I am Copernicus"

As you close your eyes,
you ask how far I'd travel
to show I love you:
"Love, you are the seven seas
   ...I'm Ferdinand Magellan"

"Why do you tell me
I'm the apple of your eye?"
you wonder out loud.
I say, "You are gravity
   …and I am Isaac Newton"

You furrow your brow
asking why I pursue you.
"It's simple", I say,
"you're 24 karat gold
   …and I am Howard Carter"

You crinkle your nose,
"Why do you never give up?"
you ask me coyly.
I say, "You are a light bulb
   … and I'm Thomas Edison"

You get somber and
ask if loving you is such 
a good idea
to which I say "Eureka!"
   … for I am Archimedes


written 29 Jan 2022

Smart Telescopes Beaten By God - Nothing

I
Humans took Ancient Stories of constellations to science
And laughed  - all the way to the modern laboratory
Just as Copernicus and Galileo would -  at Ptolemaic Flat Earthists
God laughing when our inventions "saw" twin quasars in 1979!

II
Better and bigger telescopes all the way to Hawai'i ignored God
God is NOTHING at best; SATAN rules, or just PROTOPLASM
Until we see Earth is not central; lost in the cosmos
300,000 million planets in our Milky Way alone may have life!

III
The best telescopes and inventions got lost with Dark Matter
All that we see - however totaled - is 5 percent of the Cosmos
No scientist can see or dissect DARK Matter & Dark Energy
Yet, these are keeping the Coma Cluster of galaxies "untorn" -
And Einstein knew, too, GRAVITY can help us see (quasars, trajectory)

IV
Hail, Vera Rubin for finding the speed of stars in Spiral Galaxies
Hail, Fritz Zwicky, the one who gave us "neutron stars" and "Supernova"
And Einstein for Gravitational lensing, the key to moving Science on
Also said, "Science without religion is blind; Religion without science is lame."
God hides as Gravitational Lens and Glue in the cosmos; Know Him? No Him?

Apocalypse

My school was named after Nicolaus Copernicus, 
and the teachers asked us to sing songs about him
halting the Sun and moving the Earth. 
But I could not imagine anybody with arms that long 
and realized I know nothing about the world. 

Jesus was a God and Jesus said that 
“there will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars”
and “people will faint from terror,” and 
I was one of these people afraid that Copernicus 
Changes his mind and pushes the Sun on us. 

And this is how the life of a little 7-year-old would have ended,
Crashed in Copernicus’ huge hands, melted, evaporated. 
But instead, she lived on to write about the world she grew to know. 
The world of constant uncertainties, unrecyclable plastics, and bad pop songs. 

The world that forgot that Copernicus’ hands are long enough to smash it.

I Was the Truth

To worship God Shiva linga hundreds of kilo-liters of milk being wasted
Imagine how many hundred of proletarian child could have been served with nutritious food in such quantities of milk
for some days.
Please hang me as a heretic
Such as Copernicus who was killed by the fanatic
But know that I was
the truth.

(Shivratri is one of the ritual of the Hindus. 
In this day lakhs of woman pour a lot of milk upon an idol called shivlinga in the temple)

Through the Eye of God

Through the Eye of God
The universe has exposed
It's complexities upon complexities
Inflexibly infinite
Natural laws
Copernicus theorized it
Newton wrote it's laws of motion
Einstein proved it
We live it
Look through the Eye of God
And you may see
You in your future

Nifty Named Nebulas Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: William Kekula
Picture #3
5/24/19

Geno 2

Copernicus could not slumber
With a maid on his cucumber
For good or bad
My mum and dad
Resulted from any number *

*National Geographic's Geno 2.0 project
reported my mother AND father share
the DNA of Copernicus)

Galileo Galilei

An avid student of Copernicus
And keen observer of the universe,
The founding father of astronomy,
Philosopher and polymath was he.
Punished by Urban for his heresy,
For his heliocentric the-o-ry,
He appeared before the Inquisition
Which required his public recantation.
Imprisoned, muttered :”and yet it moves”
But this false recantation nothing proves.

Poem Zero

maybe the ones who have left

us early by the malice of their own

hand knew what matters most:

procreation; the evolution of

planetary life amply illuminated, steeled

to survive in our natal fount or

with mastery of the universe poised

at the precipice of infinitude.


the greatest of these is escape

abandonment of the world one

has been born to 

and from.


because: 

carbon

 avarice

 religion

atheism

swarm behavior

there is no heaven


for:

practice makes perfect

preppers will kill you

one good turn deserves another

dust to dust

white sky

mystery

tribes


due to:

8 billion humans

5 billion years

smokey the bear

ember orange horizon

super volcano

chicxulub


since:

science

orbital decay

copernicus-gallilei-keppler-newton

rutherford-bohr-einstein

fermi-oppenheimer-hawking

"war is hell"

"mars needs women"

 

as:

reality trumps fantasy

euphoria is temporary

mortality is enough

i'm writing a poem that no one will read

i'm writing an ur-poem

poetry has never existed  


because I'm writing a poem.

Copernicus

I’ve been learning some on Copernicus
I still don’t know where he’s from
Or anything about him
I’ll just tell people he’s a rookie QB
For Ohio state. Why not?
Who even cares?

Replying To Bertrand Russell

Science is what we believe to know while philosophy is what we would love to know!*







© Demetrios Trifiatis
       09 May 2017

*With all due respect to Bertrand Russell I disagree with his statement: " Science is what we know and philosophy is what we do not Know."

We only have to think of Ptolemy's Geocentric system that was science for thirteen centuries till Copernicus came along to prove it a myth!

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