Poetry- Physics Entropy | 28 Aug 2009
At the lowest level so far discovered there are twelve kinds of matter particles: six quarks and six leptons. a lepton that was present in the Big Bang and which has been re-created in particle accelerators another lepton present in the Big Bang is created in the sun and in supernovas, as well as in [...]
What is Poetry ? Essentially defining poetry is like grasping at the wind – once you catch it, it’s no longer wind. Ars Poetica 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— [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 13 Aug 2009
David Ignatow is remembered as a poet who wrote popular verse about the common man and the issues encountered in daily life. Direct statement and clarity were his primary objectives in crafting a poem. In this prose poem, Ignatow spoofs—and celebrates—the scientific method, as his speaker counts all two million and seventy-five thousand leaves on [...]
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five pitches per octave in contrast to a heptatonic (seven note) scale such as the major scale. Pentatonic scales are found all over the world, including but not limited to Celtic folk music, Hungarian folk music, West African music, African-American spirituals, Jazz, American blues.. In this video [...]
Poetry &Sprituality Entropy | 04 Aug 2009
Sojourns in the Parallel World We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations, free from apprehension–though affected, certainly, by our actions. A world parallel to our own though overlapping. We call it “Nature”; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 01 Aug 2009
Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry’s need no introduction on my blog, considering this is my tenth post on her work. In the words of Stanislaw Barańczak: “Wit, wisdom and warmth are equally important ingredients in the mixture of qualities that makes her so unusual and every poem of hers so unforgettable.” Under a Certain Little Star My [...]