A Haiku for Science

Our future foretell
Galaxies of stellar poems
From space science spring

Inspired by Jason Wright's Thesis, Lucianne Walkowicz called out Astronomers on facebook to describe their current research as Haiku

To the Occasion
All Astronomers Sprung Forth
Poetic Research

There is a collection of some of the contributions at
Rhymes Like Science
Where my feeble efforts fall
Amongst stellar prose

Dynamics of Cats
Cold winter sky glow
crushed stars dance in my dreams
where will life go now?

Clearly this can be expanded on: we need iambic pentameter, limericks, and poetry of the sagas - proper alliterative rhyming four line stanzas!

Some of them are surprisingly good.

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