I’ve got a new favourite author
George Gamow – I read his book
Mr Tompkins in Wonderland
six years ago now I’m buying one
to read again, told in verse and in song
how the cosmos began with a mighty big bang
and inflating forever - or not - maybe one day
it will shrink and wither away - maybe
it never began and just was
always there…
Now I shall sing all the songs
of The Cosmic Opera and enjoy
the debate of 1946 amongst cosmologists
and astrophysicists on the origin of
all existence – and fly together
with Mr Tompkins into an electron
shrunk into the smallest particle -
what a lovely way to present
cosmology to me!
Margaret Alice
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lovely-way-to-present-cosmology/
