Stimulating Scientific Creativity with Poetry Inspired by Art, a website by Dieter Manstein with poetry by R.E.  students

Nelson Manstein ‘26

Ephemeral Reaction

In our first glance /

All movement ceased. /

The nucleons, static, /

Your beauty etched. /

When from afar /

The mighty force returned, /

Though deconstructed /

Your grace still reigned. /

Noble and calm, /

Anxiously stable, /

Your pensive nature, /

All reactions quenched. /

Further away /

From this inner world, /

A macrocosm /

Made them reflect. /

You are the Goddess, /

A Nereid, they said. /

She, who in the Universe /

Forged dance ensembles /

Of smalls, femtos, gigas, /

Amongst trillions of spheres /

Of Matter, Gas, Ice. /

All the while Chronos /

Searching a formula /

To conceive of you: /

Galatea, the Creator /

Of Love, Life, and all that is Unknown. /

Inspired by 'Galatea of the Spheres' by Salvador Dali, 1952