Family Science Poems

There’s a place, a space 
Parallel to ours 
I wear the same face 
Have the same shoe size 
But I wear fancier duds 
It's a...

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This is based on Thomas Dolby's great song: She Blinded Me With Science.  If you've never listened to it, I'd recommend doing so; it's...

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I was an illustrious, nuclear physicist, and I was studying the strong force,
Holding together building blocks of all atoms, as stars hold to their course.

That...

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Zen Tango

Nothing could and should take command
If you think you need the punishment
Let love get the better you watch the light gun fire
Ahoy deep in...

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You know, when I first began to 
Write on Poetrysoup way back then
I DID THAT just because THAT wasn't 
Enough. After LAVENDER SONG
I spawn a...

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Myths

When I was younger, 
just a little kid, 
I would read stories, 
of wondrous creatures, 
faraway lands, 
and people, 
that could do
incredible things. 
My imagination...

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...Of course he had arranged it all
in a place where they’d find nothing,
the sports world mourned this ‘tragic death,’
police couldn’t find anything.

That opened up a...

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The Conditions of Living

Stark organisations of my observations
Respond to beauty with pure elation 
Instead of chronic devastation 
Process the abject consternation 
From contrived over-saturation 
And...

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Man, then Woman

Our Father, which art in heaven,
   is male we perceive,
He first created Adam,
   then He created Eve.

Several thousand years...

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Mystic Physics

By Mark D. Stucky
When God said, “Let there be,”
	ALL erupted from singularity.

The event horizon couldn’t bind Him.
Space and time required Him.

The Creator cued the...

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In 1958 we saw the end of an era.
Mused the Curtiss Wright scholar.
he told a crowd of people
that an America that didn't
trust in the newness...

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...Now their have been sightings since that dark time,
like Bigfoot the giant myth will not die,
but as to the flesh-and-blood giant race
it is unlikely one...

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The cosmos and the trip to the outer limits was within her grasp.
She was fearless, assuring her relatives it was no big deal.
Of course it...

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When the space traveler returned,
                it was already another generation
...

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Born into a world that's hard to bear,
Trapped by the tree of life, with branches bare.

But even in the darkest days,
There's hope for a brighter...

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