You walked a crooked mile
you smiled a crooked smile
you dropped a wandering tear
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Herodotus wrote on a huge range of topics in his History because besides the main story line, the Persian Wars, he added in all manner of observations of the locals, who begat whom, details of local feuds, who was in, who was out, how they did it and how they made sure people were doing it enough so there would be plenty of begating.  Add plenty of supernatural causes and effects.  But the main structure of the story was the wars between the Persian Empire and the Greek States, Continue Reading

We’re made of stars.  The scientific team
Flashes a blue and green computer chart
Of the universe across my TV screen
To prove its theory with a work of art:
Temperature shifts translated into waves
Of color, numbers hidden in smooth lines.
“At last we have a map of ancient Time”
One scientist says, lost in a rapt gaze.
I look at the bright model they’ve designed,
The Big Bang’s fury frozen into laws,
Pleased to see it resembles a sonnet,
A little frame of images and rhyme
That tries to glitter brighter than its flaws
And trick the truth into its starry net.

Maura Stanton

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From:  Verse & Universe Poems About Science and Mathematics Edited by Kurt Brown

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Finally a book report from the Alan Olee Book Report Blog!  Well.  Almost. Let’s talk about it first… Continue Reading