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Discussion: Is Poetry Good for Your Health?

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April 16, 2025
Poetry, Science
16 Comments
. Australian poet Clive Boddy sent in the article "How Poetry Changes You and Your Brain" published in Greater Good Magazine, which includes the following: A 2022 study found creative expression therapy using...

‘Blood Moon Eclipse (14 March 2025)’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman

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March 28, 2025
Culture, Poetry, Science
8 Comments
. Blood Moon Eclipse (14 March 2025) The Moon’s blood red this morning as it floats within Earth’s shadow, bathing it in light refracted round our atmosphere, which coats the lunar dust in rust—a...

‘Learning Curves’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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March 24, 2025
Culture, Poetry, Satire, Science
70 Comments
. Learning Curves In classrooms smeared with monkey poop__Where questions meet deceit,She heard she came from soupy gloop---__A slab of soulless meat.Her teachers preached from thrones of bones---__They...

‘Blind Watchmaker’: A Poem by Warren Bonham

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March 11, 2025
Poetry, Science
21 Comments
. Blind Watchmaker A blind watchmaker tinkered for billions of yearswithout blueprints for making his intricate gears.So, he failed many times but got up when he felland was shocked when he made not a watch,...

A Poem for the Birthday of Charles Darwin: ‘Dog Eat Dog’ by Warren Bonham

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February 12, 2025
Poetry, Satire, Science
39 Comments
. Dog Eat Dog As cells get divided, if outcomes are guided _completely by rolling the dice, the fit must survive so their genes stay alive, _while the weak pay the ultimate price. So students of Darwin, say...

‘Full Circle’: A Poem by Dennis McSweeney

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December 21, 2024
Culture, Poetry, Science
7 Comments
. Full Circle From age to age how long the fray’s been fought Tween those who seek the Truth on sacred ground And those who wish to harness mankind’s thought To what is measured, tested, proved, and...

‘Galileo Under Confinement’: A Poem by Brian Yapko

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December 8, 2024
Beauty, Poetry, Science
22 Comments
. Galileo Under Confinement Scene: Florence, 1636 AD. In the third year of his life imprisonment (as sentenced by the Holy Inquisition) Galileo Galilei---now 71---poses at his prison-home for the Flemish...

‘Just Doin’ Our Job’: A Sonnet in Terza Rima by T.M. Moore

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November 17, 2024
Children's, Poetry, Science, Terza Rima
3 Comments
. Just Doin' Our Job As if they didn’t have enough to do already---harvesting the light to make food for the tree and seeing to it you and I have clean air every day---leaves slake their host tree’s...

‘The High Priest’s Homily’: A Poem by Shaun C. Duncan

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September 3, 2024
Culture, Poetry, Science
20 Comments
. The High Priest's Homily Once Man, in thrall to ignorance, believed the world was round, But now we know that everything is one vast sea of sound, __And what seemed solid ground Is but an anxious emptiness,...

A Poem on the Webb Space Telescope and Other Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva

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December 19, 2023
Beauty, Poetry, Science
21 Comments
. . Webb Beyond the vast and empty sky, Where darkness dwells forever wide, The eye arrives to question, "Why?" The universe has long denied A distant glimpse to those below Who seek to see where stars...
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‘Standing Up’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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April 19, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Science
25 Comments
. Standing Up The screech of an eagle __Will marshal our senses And, if reckoned regal, __Refocus our lenses __On many events That we blithely ignored __When we kept to our tents, Hypothermic and bored. As a...
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‘Dialogue on a First Grade Science Textbook’: A Poem by Evan Mantyk

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March 23, 2023
Culture, Education, Poetry, Science
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. Dialogue on a First Grade Science Textbook Many spiritual traditions throughout history have perceived all things, animate and inanimate, as living. "Usually religions teach people to believe spiritually so...
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Poem on the Failed British Space Launch, by Jeff Eardley

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January 18, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Science
16 Comments
. “Newquay, we have a problem” January 9, 2023 We’ve gathered in thousands to witness the blast-off, We’re sipping Champagne with our eyes full of stars. In five or ten years now, our guys will be...

‘Somewhere in Time’ by Brian Yapko

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November 27, 2022
Beauty, Poetry, Science
32 Comments
. Somewhere in Time . Tuesday, August 13, In the Year of Our Lord 1895 Dear Wells, despite your sober apprehension, I’m grateful that you’ve granted me the boon Of borrowing your brilliant new invention. I...

‘CDC: Save the Planet from Poison CO2!!’ by Mike Bryant

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November 4, 2022
Culture, Poetry, Satire, Science, The Environment
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. CDC: Save the Planet from Poison CO2!! “We used to think CO2 was a harmless trace gas… How wrong we were!” ---Dr. Dillard “Sparky” Barker, SMFS, The CDC’s Second Most Famous Scientist Your...

‘An Anti-Evolution Song’ by Evan Mantyk

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August 15, 2022
Culture, Poetry, Satire, Science
31 Comments
. An Anti-Evolution Song Evolution Is False. God Is True. inspired by the writings of Zhang Tianliang How probable is it, however you spin it, __That man has evolved out of nothing? Do I look like a schmuck...

‘On Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Fields’ by Evan Mantyk

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June 27, 2022
Culture, Poetry, Science
21 Comments
. On Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Fields Are we just rats within a maze? Perhaps. But then perhaps there’s more to rats than what We know. Take for example rats completing A water-maze within a lab at...

A Poem on the Shanghai Lockdown: ‘Shhh…’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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April 19, 2022
Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings, Science
15 Comments
. . Shhh… Shanghai trembles at the edge of hell As horror wafts and weaves its way through streets. The moon melts in the flare of terror’s yell--- Hot howls of raw despair till morning...

‘Nuclear Fusion’ by Jeff Eardley

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February 17, 2022
Humor, Poetry, Science
9 Comments
. Nuclear Fusion written upon hearing of the UK's recent fusion energy breakthrough Those white-coated boffins in England, Have been toiling for years, so it seems. To harness the power of Fusion, As the...

‘Transhumanism’ and Other Poetry by Joe Spring

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January 24, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Science
10 Comments
Transhumanism Somewhere about there’s a slithering sound of man’s enmity, causing excitement and casting the seeds of calamity, claiming enlightened revision of old postmodernity. Oh! But the thought...

‘Maoism’ and Other Poetry by Steve Johns

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January 16, 2015
Science
Maoism “Power comes from the barrel of a gun,” That was the essence of Mao’s logic. Millions have perished under his gun. What was the purpose of Mao’s logic? He claimed that he brought peace...

‘Skies of a Child’ by Jerri Hardesty

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April 6, 2014
Beauty, Poetry, Science
6 Comments
I love to gaze into the midnight sky To search the night for planets and bright stars, Caress, with pointing finger, blazing Mars, And blow a kiss to Venus passing by. I wonder and I ponder other...
  1. Virginia on ‘The Poppy’: A Poem by Akiane KramarikMay 22, 2025

    Love your take on this. I never think of drugs with Akiane. Drugs are not her world & I don't…

  2. Cheryl A Corey on ‘The Noble Train of Artillery’ from an Epic Poem by Andrew Benson BrownMay 22, 2025

    It's hard to put into words how incredible these are. I was especially curious to read the one about Lake…

  3. Cynthia L Erlandson on ‘Sonnet XIII’: A Poem by Jenna TedescoMay 22, 2025

    This is a beautiful and cryptic sonnet. I thought that the lover being spoken to is perhaps being tempted by…

  4. Mark Stellinga on ‘Sound and Fury’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis BryantMay 22, 2025

    Joe, both Susan and Mike will promptly apprise you of the fact that my feigned criticism concerning her assimilational prowess…

  5. Joseph S. Salemi on ‘Young Catherine’s Vision’ and Other Poetry by Mary Jane MyersMay 22, 2025

    Yes, that's exactly the way I read it. The five-syllable pronunciation sounds affected and pedantic to me.

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