Life & Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 30 Jul 2008
Do I slowly empty
Or fill myself ?
The same flow of sand,
Whichever way
You turn it.
© By Marin Sorescu
Translated by Michael Hamburger
Marin Sorescu, a prominent poet and playwright, was Romania’s Nobel Prize nominee in 1996, the year of his untimely death at the age of 60. Sorescu’s works, serious and wide-ranging in idea, are frequently comic, deceptively [...]
Poetry- Physics & Science Entropy | 25 Jul 2008
Physics professor Mike Finn, in true liberal-arts style, incorporates poetry into his physic. The poem “Galileo Galilei” was written to force his astronomy students to consider the story of the great scientist in a new way.
Once again, the Inquisition questioned me,
Are you quite certain
of what you have claimed to see?
I sweated, despite the chill.
Misunderstanding [...]
Music & Poetry Entropy | 24 Jul 2008
says wolf tones on stringed instruments howl
in resonance, like spaces between leptons and quarks,
interstitial loops from which viruses and skyscrapers
are strung. Says a piano must be free
of wolf tones; there must be echoless pure empty space
in a C-sharp minor triad for moonlight to pour
through Beethoven’s sonata hammered out on strings
that tie us to our seats [...]
Life & Meditation-Introspection & Sprituality Entropy | 17 Jul 2008
This is an eloquent piece by indian columnist Mukul Sharma, whose writing I have always, found to be meditative and thought provoking.
The opening lines from T S Elliot’s The Waste Land comprise, arguably, one of the best lyrical passages in English literature: April is the cruellest month, breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/ [...]
Poetry & Science Entropy | 10 Jul 2008
This is fascinating poem on Benzene by analytic chemist Paul Board. Equally captivating, its connection with William Blake’s poem THE TYGER
Authors note…With sincere apologies to William Blake ! –
Benzene! Benzene! Burning bright
Belching engines day and night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame Kekulé’s symmetry ?
Who’d have thought your Carbon Six
Could have produced such toxic tricks
Or [...]
Literature & Poetry Entropy | 01 Jul 2008
This is an eloquent and inspiring article by Jay Parini published in The Chronicle Review, on the theme which is close to my heart
Poetry doesn’t matter to most people. They go about their business as usual, rarely consulting their Shakespeare, Wordsworth, or Frost. One has to wonder if poetry has any place in the 21st [...]