Universe Poems

Now that you've considered point of view and perspective via the Powers of Ten video, take the word association notes you made and create a free-verse poem. If you wish, you can Google images from the Hubble telescope to remind you of some of your ideas.

Your poem can go in any direction, but if you could link it loosely to the idea of the universe, that might add profundity.

Consider also this quote, originally attributed to Carl Sagan, suggesting we are all made up of stars. This version was written by Vincent Cronin:

"Our bodies contain three grams of iron, three grams of bright, silver-white magnesium, and smaller amounts of manganese and copper. Proportionate to size, they are among the weightiest atoms in our bodies, and they come from the same source, a long-ago star. There are pieces of star within us all."

Perhaps this, too, might inspire your poems!!