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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 metaphors [...]
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