Poem 1 - Susan

Hello all! It's been a long, long time since I posted here, but I'm very much looking forward to this new incarnation of the blog. Since I'm back in school, but taking science and math courses rather than my usual history and language, I've been missing this kind of creative writing. I can't wait to get back into the groove of poetry, although it's been a long time since I've written with any seriousness.

I've always taken much of my inspiration from school books and courses - it's a constant source of amazement to me how all disciplines intertwine if you look closely enough. It's fair to say that this semester you'll be seeing a lot of Physics in my poetry, particularly relating to Newton's Laws, which have a lot to say about just about everything. Anyway, that's enough of an introduction. Without further ado, here's my first poem:

Song of Scales

Now is the Hour of Symmetry –

Autumnal.

The Sun balanced on its point

precarious above the wobbling Earth.

We could call it a system, unstable –

that when upset, experiences a force

in the same direction as the disturbance –

accelerates away from equilibrium.

Sailors and Astrologers –

(though, sailors have ever been

readers of the Stars)

Once marked this Equinox

when our Great Star, the Sun,

entered into Libra – bearer of the scales,

Goddess of Justice, Balance, Truth –

so many names, we might say,

for a single concept.

All things crave balance –

even our Tilted Earth,

if only for a moment, seeks solace

twice a year, in Symmetry.

And what cruelty then,

that such repose,

should be denied to Us, her creatures –

imperfect, crooked

from straining towards the daylight

even as the Nights

grow long.