"Feeling stuck? Close your laptop, stop your field measurements and write a poem
Sam Illingworth explains how poetry can help to communicate and celebrate your science."
As a former scientist and a current writer struggling to find my voice, I found this thought intriguing. To tap into the creativity of the right brain to answer questions of scientific intrigue and rigor rattling around in the left brain has always been of interest to me. But the thought of writing a poem to hone in on your scientific solutions was brilliant.
Science is all about logic and fact and data --- loads of data. Poetry is about emotion, and painting pictures, and simplicity -- massive simplicity.
I love this! So I immediately wrote a Haiku.
When science gets tough
Strive to see the universe
Uniquely in verse.
Did you get the double meaning? And I don't even have to name my poem. Now to find the answers to my scientific problems. What to do with all the plastic that sailors collect on beaches around the world. I need creative solutions and this may be the way.
