Poem and Lyric Writing Event

As organiser of this social event, Rik Drummond-Brydson was the first to read the poem 'We are the time.  We are the famous' by Jorge Luis Borges

We are the time. We are the famous

metaphor from Heraclitus the Obscure.

We are the water, not the hard diamond,

the one that is lost, not the one that stands still.

We are the river and we are that greek

that looks himself into the river. His reflection

changes into the waters of the changing mirror,

into the crystal that changes like the fire.

We are the vain predetermined river,

in his travel to his sea.

The shadows have surrounded him.

Everything said goodbye to us, everything goes away.

Memory does not stamp his own coin.

However, there is something that stays

however, there is something that bemoans.

 

Helen Freeman read an Ice Crystals poem by Tivonna from -

https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1834100/ice-crystals/

 

Crystallisation Haikus - Written and read by Helen Freeman

The early stages

Of calcium carbonate

Crystallisation

Using additives

For polymorph selection

Of which there are four…

ACC, calcite

Aragonite, vaterite

Don’t mention “proto”!

 

CRYSTALLISATION - Written and read by Caroline Carr

Crystals sparkle in the light

Coloured hues that glisten bright

There is a fascination with crystallisation.

Ordered structures form the lattice

Shapes and sizes like a tapis

There is a fascination with crystallisation.

Transparent mineral, particles too

Salt and snowflakes to name but a few

There is a fascination with crystallisation.

 

Crystallisation (A Love Poem) - Written and read by Thomas Dunn

My dear, you set my heart alight

My love has insatiable appetite

I adore every inch of you, that much is right

Down to your hydroxyapatite

Our attraction may be described as fate,

Better yet, ions unable to rotate

Locked in a thermodynamically stable state

Like calcium to carbonate

I'll stand by you, 'long as I am able

Because my love for you isn't metastable,

It's an established truth, not fib nor fable,

Not unlike the periodic table

You supersaturate me - spinodal decomposition

You've changed my ways - a phase transition

When I'm with you I lose all cognition

Two lovers in a periodic boundary condition

(And I forget about my 9000 pounds a year undergraduate tuition)

To you, I promise I'll adhere

Like calcium's hydration sphere

We were meant to be - that's crystal clear

We constructively interfere

I look at how our lives have changed

How sorrow quelled as love became

And from the rooftops I'll exclaim

Classical or nonclassical, I love you just the same