Universe
When I look out at the sky each night
I let my imagination take flight
The
opening lines of one of the winning entries to a national scientific
poetry competition speak for many of the two thousand poets who
submitted entries. The poem, written by Hugo Small, Southampton, won
joint first prize (4-7 year olds) in the Universe competition, part of
National Science Week 2005.
Entrants had been invited to submit
poems on the themes of time, space and energy, to tie in with Einstein
Year. Author Terry Pratchett, astronomer Sir Patrick Moore and the
Muppet scientists Beaker and Dr Honeydew were amongst those who wrote
poems for the competition.
The competition was run by the BA
(British Association for the Advancement of Science) as part of
Einstein Year and you can read all the winning entries on the BA website.
