Today's poem comes from p. 15, 80-81, 99, and 160 of Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, written by Neil deGrasse Tyson with Gregory Mone.
The Greatest Story Ever Told
big bang
gravity working to bring
everything together
expanding universe working to
spread everything out
galaxies
stars
planets
people
matter all
big bang
forged one-of-a-kind
elements
unbelievably strange
yet atoms and particles
that make our bodies
are spread across the universe
making us one
and the same
Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2021. All rights reserved.
I hope you'll come back tomorrow and see what new poem I've found. Until then, you may want to read previous poems in this series. I'm also sharing these found poems as images on my Instagram in case you want to see them all in one place.
April 1 - Flotsam
April 2 - A Warm Wind
April 3 - Zentangle Poem
April 4 - Soap Bubbles
April 5 - Following Butterflies
April 6 - Mount St. Helens
April 7 - Beautiful Buildings
April 8 - Muir in California
April 9 - Night on the Reef
Lovely. NdGT is such a "in a hurry" kind of guy I don't know that he'd be still enough to write poetry, yet his observations on the universe are almost always beautifully stated.
ReplyDeleteI love that your poem has so many facts and ends with this one fundamental truth: "making us one/and the same." Beautiful.
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