Welcome To The Science Poetry Center
...Click on image to get a larger version. This mushroom image was created on Clarisworks paint by David Klingman, 8th Grade, Mendocino Middle School. Each month we'll try to post a new image at the top. If you wish to do so you can write a poem about this image or a related subject and we'll post the poems with the image. See below for other topics and more.
Sponsored By: Mendocino Middle School
Mendocino USD, A PacBell Education First Model Site
Published by Cory M. Wisnia
MendoWorld Science/Tech Guy
With the able assistance and enthusiasm of his 8th grade students
The idea for this page came from a simple project: to write Haikus about the Comet Hyakutake. Although a number of students wrote poetry for this page, which you can find at: http://www.mcn.org/ed/cur/cw/Comet.html...Reflections Upon A Beautiful Vision, a number of students wrote to send in more general poetry subjects about nature and the world around them.
This page is dedicated to those students.
This page will be a place for students to post their own poetry, with the subject being anything having to do with Nature or Natural Science, including Life, Earth, Physical and Environmental Science topics. For example, writing about the stars, or forests, or sitting by a lake or stream, or a volcano or mountain top, or walking in the snow, or visiting another planet would all be appropriate topics. As a general rule, poems shouldn't exceed 300 words, but if it is an amazing epic poem, we'll certainly consider it on its own merits. Very short poems are also very welcome! If you would like to have your poetry submitted and placed on-line, you can e-mail it to:
Cory Wisnia
Student Natural Science Poetry Center
cwisnia@mcn.org
Please include: your NAME, e-mail address if you have one, AGE, GRADE, name of SCHOOL, location (city, state, country). Allgrades from k-12 are accepted. The only other criteria we have at present is to allow no profanity to be placed on-line or overt sexual content for the obvious reason that this is a school-sponsored activity.
Here is a poem to give an idea of the type of writing we are interested in posting for students!
LEO'S JUNGLE
I lay lying
a bed of stars embellish me
my second self is sleeping
Slipping away I once wandered that place,
that mysterious realm...
So far away, yet within my grasp.
I danced down the creases of Orion's belt
And swim in the pools of the Milky Way.
Shooting stars & flaming comets
light my way, carressing my cheeks
with their flickering tails.
I slip through Cancer's claws
And crouch in Leo's jungle of
mesh fishing-nets & lover's glances.
As I seep back into myself
Into that world of promises & denial.
I wonder...
Wonder why and how and...
If so...
WHEN?
...written by Solange Roberdeau, 8th grade, Mendocino Middle School
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