Poetry & Science

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This is a page for poetry about science, technology, and engineering. I envision it as place to create and discover metaphors that bridge these two very disparate spheres of human existence and human thinking. More than that, it is place to engage or re-engage with language and with language metaphors. How do we build bridges, through language, between the known object and symbol and that which is unknown or linguistically imprecise? This page, I hope, will be a guide to that process of building language bridges, linking the common word in everyday poetic discourse to technical usage and expressions. Metaphor itself comes from the Greek to "carry across". We carry across meaning from words and ideas we know to new constructions of meaning. Poetry is a vehicle and bridge for metaphors and other touchstones of the imagination. This page could have been just as properly been titled PoetryBridge or WordBridge.