A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,
Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb,
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown—
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs,
Leaving, as the moon releases
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,
Leaving, as the moon [...]
Nature & Science Entropy | 15 Jun 2008
Galileo invented it, Einstein understood it, and Eddington saw it.
1 Who invented relativity? Bzzzt—wrong. Galileo hit on the idea in 1639, when he showed that a falling object behaves the same way on a moving ship as it does in a motionless building.
2 And Einstein didn’t call it relativity. The word never appears [...]
Meditation-Introspection & Poetry & Sprituality Entropy | 10 Jun 2008
My learned and enlighten friend Michele introduced me to works of Persian Poet Sohrab Sepehri – The Painter of Rhymes. Wish to share his subterranean & charming poem translated by Jerome Clinton.
Illuminations
A cloudless sky,
no breath of wind,
I sit beside the courtyard pool.
The slow stirrings of the goldfish,
the radiance and I,
the earth and water—
Life clusters in [...]
Philosophy & Poetry & Science Entropy | 08 Jun 2008
What good is science to poets? And what good is poetry to scientists? According to Poet Michael Symmons Roberts science moves faster than the ethical debate, so it takes poets time to react to new developments. Genomics, a topic that he is interested in, is a good example. “It’s so new that the deeper [...]
Waves of circumflexes
storms of adverbs,
windmills of verbs,
shells of signs of ellipsis,
on the island of poems
of soul,
of mind,
of thought
one-word garments
you wear
to endure!
© By Dimitris P. Kraniotis