Today we have two very over-contrived but (more or less) scientific poems for your viewing pleasure. The first, a 5/7/5 Haiku, is all about fruit - and matters germane to it - because the March Challenge has so prompted it, in honor of Johnny Appleseed Day. The second poem, per the actual science prompt of Big Tent Poetry, is a Ballade, and it covers the topic of one of the most popular elements on the periodic table: ununquadium.
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How Fast Can A Banana Split or a Fruit Fly Fly?
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” ~Groucho Marx
The rate of speed of
fruit flies = bananas
when they do a split.
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The Ballade[ium] of Ununquadium
With atomic number of one fourteen
there’s no use outside ‘the scientific.’
It also has zero – and yes, I mean -
zero stable isotopes. Specific
things like boiling point are vaporific
(also, superheavy.) Here’s a factoid:
Its name wasn’t really honorific
but this substance keeps scientists employed.
Its density’s unknown, so one can’t glean
that info. But don’t get tenebrific*:
There have only been a few atoms seen
since production hasn’t been prolific
but neither has it been quite somnific*.
Ocean abundance? N/A, ergo: void.
Crustal abundance? N/A. (That’s ific)
but this substance keeps scientists employed.
I chose this topic ‘cause it’s not routine.
I’m no expert: I can’t be motific*.
Radioactivity’s not my scene -
I just tried to be a bit lucific
re this element that’s so finific,
even if oxidation state’s devoid
or rather, unknown, to be specific;
still, this substance keeps scientists employed.
Ununquadium’s really pulsific*!
And with that I’ll add, I hope you enjoyed
my talk. Hope it wasn’t soporific
since this substance keeps scientists employed.
*Vaporific - producing steam
Tenebrific – dark and gloomy
Somnific – sleep inducing
Iffic – iffy-ish.
Motific - a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Lucific – to bring light
Finific - A limiting element or quality
Pulsific - Makes one’s pulse race
Soporific - monotonous
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