A Reading 1 Poetry Loves Science 5-31-12

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Poems Inspired by Science

Caterpillars by Brod Bagert

The Bluet by James Schuyler

Iron the common element of earth by Lorine

Niedecker From In Just- by e. e. cummings

April Rain Song by Langston Hughes

Ready for Jupiter by Bridget Madden

From Sing-Song by Christina Rossetti

Blazing in Gold... by Emily Dickinson


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Science subjects Entomology - the study of insects

Botany & horticulture - the study of plants

Geology - the study of earth formations

Meteorology - the study of weather

Astronomy - the study of space

Other fields of science:

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Butterfly PoemScience Subject: Entomology


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Caterpillars

BY BROD BAGERT

They came like dewdrops overnight

Eating every plant in sight,

Those nasty worms with legs that crawl

So creepy up the garden wall,

Green prickly fuzz to hurt and sting

Each unsuspecting living thing.

How I hate them! Oh, you knowId love to squish them with my toe.

But then I see past their disguise,

Someday theyll all be butterflies.


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Flower Poem

Science Subject:

Botany and Horticulture


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Vocabulary Pallid - pale

Astonish - surprise

Infinite - forever Proclamation - declaration

Sepulture burial chamber

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The Dandelion's pallid tube

Astonishes the Grass,And Winter instantly becomes

An infinite Alas --

The tube uplifts a signal Bud

And then a shouting Flower, --

The Proclamation of the Suns

That sepulture is o'er.

~Emily Dickinson


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Vocabulary bluet (n.) - a type of flower

stamina (n.) - the ability to keep up your effort for a long time

Quaker lady (n.) - another type of flower, named after theappearance of women who were of the Quaker faith back in

the 1700 & 1800s (they wore white bonnets with frills aroundit, like a flowers petals)

Carrs table water biscuit - a type of cracker that you havewith cheese often at parties. Look for them in the grocerystore next time youre there! (Anything can go in a poem; any

errand you run can help evoke a line in a poem!) ripple (n.) or (v.) - series of waves on a surface

dour (adj.) - gloomy in manner or appearance

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The Bluet by James SchuylerAnd is it stamina

that unseasonably freaks

forth a bluet, aQuaker lady, by

the lake? So small,

a drop of sky that

splashed and held,

four-petaled, creamy

in its throat. The woods

around were brown,

the air crisp as a

Carr's table water

biscuit and smelt of

cider. There were frost

apples on the trees in

the field below the house.

The pond was still, then

broke into a ripple.

The hills, the leaves that

have not yet fallen

are deep and oriental

rug colors. Brown leaves

in the woods set off

gray trunks of trees.

But that bluet was

the focus of it all: last

spring, next spring, what

does it matter? Unexpected

as a tear when someone

reads a poem you wrote

for him: "It's this line

here." That bluet breaks

me up, tiny spring flower

late, late in dour October.


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Mineral Poem

Science Subject: Geology


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Vocabulary Freighters - cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or

vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one

port to another

Sault Sainte Marie port city in Michigan on the St Mary

River, across from Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada

Ore - a mineral that contains metal that is valuable

enough to be mined

Iron ore - an ore from which iron can be extracted


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Iron the common element of earth

in rocks and freighters

Sault Sainte Mariebig boats

coal-black and iron-ore-red

topped with what white castlework

The waters working together

internationally

Gulls playing both sides

-Lorine Niedecker


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Seasons and Weather Poems

Science Subject: Meteorology


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from in Just-

BY E. E. CUMMINGS

in Just-

spring when the world is mud-

luscious the little

lame balloonman

whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come

running from marbles and

piracies and it's

spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful


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April Rain Song

BY LANGSTON HUGHES

Let the rain kiss you.

Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.

The rain makes running pools in the gutter.

The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night

And I love the rain.


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Planet, Sun and Moon PoemsScience Subject: Astronomy


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Is the moon tired? she looks so pale

Within her misty veil:

She scales the sky from east to west,And takes no rest.

Before the coming of the nightThe moon shows papery white;

Before the dawning of the day

She fades away.

FromSing-Song by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)


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I'm ready for JupiterIt's fiery red spotThe way it fits three Earths

All those lightning bolts and hurricanes

I wish two asteroids would reinvent my worldSmacking into me, getting "hitted from both sides"(As the first-grade astronomer explains it)Then a storm would rage that never dies

-Bridget Madden


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Vocabulary blazing - (v.) burn fiercely or brightly

quenching - (v.) satisfy horizon - (n.) The line at which the earth's surface and

the sky appear to meet.

stooping - (v.) Bend one's head or body forward and

downward otter - (n.)A fish-eating mammal of the weasel family,

typically semiaquatic, with an elongated body, dense fur,

and webbed feet

tinting - (v.) color (something) slightly; tinge: "a black carwith tinted windows".

bonnet - (n.) a woman's or child's hat tied under the chin,

typically with a brim framing the face

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Blazing in Gold and quenching in PurpleLeaping like Leopards to the SkyThen at the feet of the old HorizonLaying her spotted Face to die

Stooping as low as the Otter's WindowTouching the Roof and tinting the BarnKissing her Bonnet to the Meadow

And the Juggler of Day is gone

-Emily Dickinson


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How will science inspire you?

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A Reading 1 Poetry Loves Science 5-31-12

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