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 nuclear [...]
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—
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
A [...]
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 [...]
Music & Science Entropy | 10 Aug 2009
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 legendary [...]
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 be “Nature” too.
Whenever we lose track of our own obsessions,
our [...]
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 apologies to chance [...]