Remembered that I’d posted this video – it is the preliminary work put in to some of the science communication stuff I do. This was filmed before I went off to the University of the West of England to do my course. I thought I would share for amusement value and cuteness.
Encased in stone, the bones of the lizard lies Weathered and worn, preserved but millennia dead
Relic in torch light Nothing but fragments Held by byssal threads Detritus floats Within the beam The diver explores A mystery of the mud
Lets see, See that girl me Running around, Thinking she is climbing up when she’s falling down doing too much stuff With no time to sit and think Or be Watch her sink beneath Shoulds and woulds and coulds Drowning in potential Being told it is essential – to choose Knowing what ever she decides […]
Star stuff filtered through the cosmos Star stuff smaller than dust Hurtling away from explosive stella deaths Star stuff heavy metal elements of choice Star stuff light hydrogen and helium in plasma soup Colliding, destroying, reforming Different atoms to be Diffusing out from red giant expansion Layers of reaction Different star mechanisms for different elements […]
Time did stretch and yawn and break Winding into endless slithers Of nothing The base unit of all Turn and twist the mortal plane One road loops Falls back on itself… in itself… Of itself Containing all in perfect empty fullness
Rivers flowing locked in time Carving the landscape Pushing down, down, Towards the core That it will never reach Rivers carrying pebbles Rolling them over and over Wearing them smooth Knocking off the edges Perfection in growing small Rivers pure blood of life Flowing out to nourish the world To emerald beauty Life to the […]
I Am An Ammonite is a poem written by Marcus Moore as part of the Cotswold Water Park Trust. I feel very lucky that a few years ago they all said yes to me illustrating it and placing it in the Science-Art Exhibition at Centre Arts in Cheltenham. The poem is on canvas and I […]
Natural biotech Copying self imperfections Selections for adaption Mistakes accumulating Differentiation Into the new Greasy pockets of salt rich water Collaborate Mutulism of self to movement Metabolism, melding together New combinations Preventing stagnation Till thought of all this Over rides the need to repeat and copy and make mistakes And the molecules of the nano […]
Star stuff filtered through the cosmos Star stuff smaller than dust hurtling away from explosive stella deaths Star stuff heavy metal elements of choice Star stuff light hydrogen and helium in plasma soup Colliding destroying reforming different atoms to be Diffusing out from red giant expansion Layers of reaction Different star mechenisms for different elements […]