My Dear Readers:
Jay Friedenberg, current president of the Haiku Society of America (HSA), has a free eBook out: Sci-Ku: Explorations into the Poetry of Science. His collection of sci-ku is structured into nine sections/thematic topics -- Mathematic, Physic, Tectonic, Geologic, Climatic, Atmospheric, Lunaric, Solaric, and Astronomic -- that explore brave new worlds at the interface of science and poetry. And a complete glossary of all scientific terms is included as well as a reference list.
Selected Sci-Ku:
firefly flashes
the world beyond
Boolean logic
quantum foam
the hiss and pop
of settling surf
badlands
the fossilized remains
of a beer can
on the way
between here and home -
glacial erratic
stellar phenomena
my thoughts travel
in an elliptical orbit
redshift
the sudden flare
of rear end lights
gravitational waves ...
listening to the heartbeat
of the universe
expanding multiverse
a clown blows balloons
inside balloons
I would like to share the following haiku to conclude today's "sci-ku" post:
a midnight river
of Starlink satellites ...
an Inuit child's wish
Happy Reading
Chen-ou
Notes:
1 Is Starlink a grand innovation or a menace?, Space, January 7, 2022
Starlink is the name of a satellite network developed by the private spaceflight company SpaceX to provide low-cost internet to remote locations. SpaceX eventually hopes to have as many as 42,000 satellites in this so-called megaconstellation...
2 For more about scifaiku/sci-ku, see To the Lighthouse: Scifaiku (Sci-Fi Haiku)
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