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I have a number of passions, the obvious ones, cricket and beautiful women (all women are beautiful), can be gleaned from my username and my writing, However at around the same time I was falling in love with cricket and learning to walk I fell in love with science.
By education and inclination I was a research chemist, but I love all the natural sciences from maths through physics and chemistry to biology and all points in between. So lets see some celebrations of science in poetry.

I would love to see some chunks of the periodic table, a little bit of string theory, evolution, astronomy, the Large Hadron Collider, Fermat's last theorum or the permeability of protective gloves to different classes of solvents.

I am a rhymer but great free verse is always welcome, forms if you do them well or plain old fashioned rhyming, I haven't seen any genuine blank verse for a while ...

Go for it! You can have two entries, but if you do one must (I repeat MUST, shall I say that again? ONE MUST) be a fresh write.

Oh and as a coda to this, did you know Gracie Fields was a fan of subatomic physics research, she sang about the Large Hadron Collider and it's search for the exact weight of the Higgs boson ...

"It's the biggest mass-predictor in the world!"

And from that you will judge a bit of humour and some bad puns will go down well

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on May 17
  • Rewards: Gold: 1000, Silver: 500, Bronze: 250
  • Final notes:
    Thank-you all for the entries
    I'm a little sorry this didn't provoke a few more new entries and some more hard science but I got a good mixture of poems and science and quite a few with both so I thank-you all.

    I hope you don't disagree too much with my choices

    Jeff

    sorry it took so long to judge, see you all in another contest soon I hope.

Contest Winners

  1. Alchemy
    by Vera Rich 30 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 28 1:48 PM 2007
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  2. Quantum Reincarnation
    A negative pi meson collides with a proton driving two particles to annihilation.
    Creating two new particles, a lambda particle and a neut
    by HaleyMary 12 lines, 15 comments, on May 16 8:46 PM 2008. In quantum physics reincarnation pi meson proton lambda particle k meson
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  3. Large Hadron Collider.
    This is really happening, now.
    by Black Narcissus 22 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 21 2:07 PM 2008. In Scientific., Contest
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  4. Butterfly Effect
    by Kathleen a Nazarene 11 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 21 11:44 AM. In Haiku, Life, Nature, NaPoMo
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  5. Miracles of the Future
    Mark was a bright and healthy boy who was hardly ever ill,
    that was untill one autumn day, whilst climbing up a hill.
    by judmc 45 lines, 22 comments, on Jan 11 3:37 PM
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]

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  • judmc
    April 20
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    Gracie Fields

    Turn herbert's face to the wall mother never more mention his name,for he's brought disgrace on the family ,and bowed down our heads in shame.how's about that Jeff for memory lane...George..


  • Mairi bheag gold member
    April 20
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    "It's the biggest mass-predictor in the world!"

    GROAN!