Science Poems for January 2011: 16
Last April I posted a science sonnet a day in celebration of National Poetry Month (index with links here). This January I am posting a science poem a day, written in various traditional forms, in honor of Science Online 2011.
The "fifth annual international meeting on Science and the Web" is currently underway and runs through Jan. 16, 2011. Click on the logo below to access their daily digest on paper.li.
As with the sonnets, my January poems take their cues from science-based articles. I also have two works in a special science poem section (vol. 33 #5/6) of Star*Line, journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. You can read my "Ciliate Sestina" here.
Also, two sonnets from last April's collection, "In Development" and "Manipulations," have made it into Open Laboratory 2010 Click on the badge below for links to the 50 essays, 6 poems, and 1 cartoon in the collection.
(Click here to see Andrea Kuszewski's gorgeous cover!)
Today's poem takes its cue from "With specialist pollinator absent, Himalayan gingers must adapt" (Science at the Smithsonian, Jan. 13, 2011). Click on the article link to learn more about the research. To learn more about the traditional poetic structure used, click on the form name.
(Form: Korean Sijo)
Long-tongued pollinator vanishes
like evaporating rain.
Ginger waits on the mountainside;
its flowers learn patience.
Sorrow as our old friends depart;
joy as new bees arrive.
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The "fifth annual international meeting on Science and the Web" is currently underway and runs through Jan. 16, 2011. Click on the logo below to access their daily digest on paper.li.
As with the sonnets, my January poems take their cues from science-based articles. I also have two works in a special science poem section (vol. 33 #5/6) of Star*Line, journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. You can read my "Ciliate Sestina" here.
Also, two sonnets from last April's collection, "In Development" and "Manipulations," have made it into Open Laboratory 2010 Click on the badge below for links to the 50 essays, 6 poems, and 1 cartoon in the collection.
(Click here to see Andrea Kuszewski's gorgeous cover!)
Today's poem takes its cue from "With specialist pollinator absent, Himalayan gingers must adapt" (Science at the Smithsonian, Jan. 13, 2011). Click on the article link to learn more about the research. To learn more about the traditional poetic structure used, click on the form name.
(Form: Korean Sijo)
Long-tongued pollinator vanishes
like evaporating rain.
Ginger waits on the mountainside;
its flowers learn patience.
Sorrow as our old friends depart;
joy as new bees arrive.
Free downloads at the Deviations website, Smashwords, and Manybooks.
Proud participant, Operation E-Book Drop (provides free e-books to personnel serving overseas. Logo from the imagination and graphic artistry of K.A. M'Lady & P.M. Dittman); Books For Soldiers (ships books and more to deployed military members of the U.. armed forces); and Shadow Forest Authors (a fellowship of authors and supporters for charity, with a focus on literacy).
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