"niels" poems
August 10th, you seemed so distant
Not quite as distant as the barrel of one gun
The gun that fired the shot that would stun
The scientific world, from Rutherford to Niels Bohr
To find out esteemed fellow scientist Moseley was no more
But before that, in 1913
X-ray spectra was naught more than a dream
Before diffraction through crystals became the truth
The wavelengths needed a meaning, and there was proof
You developed a mathematical system without flaw
One so great, it was named "Moseley's law"
Mendeleev had the right idea, but not a plan
Could not arrange the elements the way that you now can
Without you, my sir, we would not have had this premium
To enjoy the elements technetium, hafnium, promethium, and rhenium
These gaps that like stars littered the periodic table
Were filled with ease, and the cosmos became stable
You had set the foundation for crystallography of x-rays
A method of determining arrangement that is still used in modern days
The first machines in use were those for which you had the design
But their widespread use you could not see as there simply was no time
For during a battle, as you made the phone set run
A bullet took your grace away, a scientist dying young
Oct 17, 2012
Oct 17, 2012 at 4:21 PM UTC
The Opposite is Also True
~~~
*The opposite of a fact is falsehood,
but the opposite of one profound truth
may very well be another profound truth.*
Niels Bohr
~~~
how particularly fine that a physicist
reminds us of the duality
not of the invisible laws governing us
but of the time gravity black holes
of the human physic and psyche
The Unifying Theorem
for the heart,
that explains away the
universe of confuse and agitate,
where fact and falsehood,
both mix max and
match
wager normative is opposites clashing,
for in opposition,
are the
root vegetables grown,
fruits from
the soil of attraction
explain better?
in the
the brain, the soul,
the heart, the body, the
whatever
root you chose
to know it by,
there are no laws,
no immutables,
all variable, no constants,
all vowels, no consonants but one
singularity
*all contradictions
are opposite
solutions*
for when we believe we love,
the opposite is also true,
we groan in agonized delights,
scream from undesirable disturbances
in our human force,
in shrieks, sighs, wails and moans
all are are variations on
A,E,I,O, and you
the noise of polar emotional
opposites,
making the same sounds,
exactly
I will love us forever,
or at least till next Friday...
She loves me,
She loves me not...
I despise
that I cannot help
but to think of you
almost every other minute,
my love,
you are
a sundae of dark chocolate of dislike,
bathed in the sweet caramel of desire
we
is a child,
of two
who
cannot necessarily see
I to I,
even as they stare into
each other's eyes,
foolishly thinking
since I see my reflection
in my other's eyes,
therefore I am in
my other
I
hold what
I
behold
I ramble and digress,
the simplest last,
always the best
in matters of the heart,
the opposite is also true,
this is the only
certainty
If
you can comprehend this,
If
you can deal with this,
you still only have a
50/50
chance of stumbling
into true love
but
the opposite is also true
Jun 28, 2015
Jun 28, 2015 at 6:22 AM UTC