[Duncan Gillies MacLaurin]

Can anyone direct me to any poems about the Big Bang?

Duncan

[Martin Elster]

http://www.afonsky.com/PoetryCorner/DW-BigBang.htm

http://bibleforums.org/showthread.ph...dren-s-poem%29

http://bigbangpoetry.blogspot.com/

http://takeart.org/news/entry/little...m-by-liv-torc/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/big-b...t-of-paradise/

http://www.google.com/search?q=poems...ient=firefox-a

[Catherine Chandler]

http://www.14by14.com/Issue5/AnArmch...opherCons.html

[Duncan Gillies MacLaurin]

Thanks, Martin and Catherine!

My personal preference so far is definitely yours, Catherine, and Pat's painting's a delight. But all suggestions are very welcome. An inter-departmental teaching course...

Duncan

[John Whitworth]

I wrote this last year, I think.


Grandiloquent Bang

The Big Bang banged big, and before there was nothing.
Before, there was nothing before, do you see?
Because there was nothing before there was something
And soon there was quite a lot more, do you see?

There was nothing to see and no body to see it
Where nothing had formerly been, do you see?
And with no-one to be, there was no-one to be it,
And nothing to see or be seen, do you see?

If you see what you see there was no-one to be
Who could see there was nothing at all, do you see?
And you surely must see we agree to agree
In a practical sense to fuck all, do you see?

It’s a rule of the game we must all say the same
And our peers are the people who say, do you see?
If we all say the same then there’s no-one to blame.
We are peers at the end of the day, do you see?

Do you see, do you see? Are you coming to tea?
You’re a friend or the friend of a friend, do you see?
And we friends can all say in a similar way
We are we, and we say it’s OK, do you see?

Moralitas
The God and the Goddess, in armour and bodice,
Together, as thus (all in rhyme, do you see?):
Of all the odd freaks, sure these geeks are the oddest.
The weather was US all the time, do you see?

[Maryann Corbett]

Duncan, you might also try searching the archives of Astropoetica. Go to astropoetica.com, click on "archives" and use the search feature to search "big bang." I got quite a few hits.

[Duncan Gillies MacLaurin]

Thanks, Maryann! And thank you, John! That's just marvellous!

Duncan

[Wintaka]

Explanation: "Cosmos" was inspired by a documentary stating that 13 billion years after the Big Bang we have suns dated at 17 billion years old.

Cosmos

Sun stars burn
before the Big Bang.

Leaves scatter
slower than the wind.

-o-

[John Whitworth]

How does that work, Wintaka?

[Martin Elster]

Here is one I didn't think of earlier.

http://www.mindflights.com/item.php?sub_id=7011