Cosmic Haiku
I haven’t had much time to post today and will probably be too busy next week for anything too substantial, so I thought I’d resort to a bit of audience participation. How about a few Haiku on themes connected to astronomy, cosmology or physics?
Don’t be worried about making the style of your contributions too authentic, just make sure they are 17 syllables in total, and split into three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively.
Here’s a few of my own to give you an idea!
Quantum Gravity:
The troublesome double-act
Of Little and Large
Gravity’s waves are
Traceless; which does not mean they
Can never be found
The Big Bang wasn’t
So big, at least not when you
Think in decibels.
Cosmological
Constant and Dark Energy
Are vacuous names
Microwave Background
Photons remember a time
When they were hotter
Isotropic and
Homogeneous metric?
Robertson-Walker
Galaxies evolve
In a complicated way
We don’t understand
Acceleration:
Type Ia Supernovae
Gave us the first clue
Cosmic Inflation
Could have stretched the Universe
And made it flatter
Astrophysicist
Is what I’m told is my Job
Title. Whatever.
Contributions welcome via the comments box. The best one gets a chance to win Bully’s star prize.
September 7, 2009 at 8:10 pm
What is Pluto now –
A planet or something else?
I don’t know either.
September 7, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Well done. I was beginning to think I wouldn’t get any contributions at all.
I might have put “I don’t care either” for my last line!
September 8, 2009 at 10:28 am
I did just see Hiranya Peiris quote your `Gravity’s waves …’ haiku in her talk here at Cosmo-09 (slides online already), which got a good chuckle.
Andrew
September 8, 2009 at 10:46 am
Fame at last.
September 8, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Halley’s comet comes
ev’ry 76 years –
just once a lifetime.
September 8, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Pulsars first showed up
As regular bleeps from space
Little green men? No!
September 11, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Dark astronomy
one day we will know
how dust plays a part.
September 21, 2009 at 12:46 pm
It’s probably impolite to point this out, but I did notice that Haley’s Haiku is syllabically flawed…
September 20, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Telescopes tell us
the things we need a bigger
telescope to see
September 21, 2009 at 12:43 pm
What should we build next:
S-K-A or E-L-T?
Or maybe neither…
November 28, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Soundless emptiness.
The darkness between two stars
When they grow homesick.
August 18, 2011 at 6:53 am
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