• Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
  • Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!

Friday Poetry Corner - Back by popular demand

Collapse
X
  •  
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    Friday Poetry Corner - Back by popular demand

    Sir Isaac Newton
    Copyright 1997 David Arns

    Under a spreading apple tree,
    The village genius stands;
    His mind conceives of wondrous things,
    He writes them with his hands;
    His fame goes forth to all the world--
    He's known in many lands.
    A tiny babe on Christmas Day
    in 1642
    Was born to Mrs. Newton
    while outside, the cold winds blew.
    And on the farm, through childhood,
    precocious Isaac grew.

    And after chores, he built devices
    to see just how they worked,
    To see what laws of nature
    underneath the workings lurked.
    (When people called them "toys," that's what
    got Isaac really irked.)

    His mother saw he was no farmer,
    sent him off to school;
    He quickly showed at Cambridge
    that he was nobody's fool:
    He began to bring to light the laws
    that all of nature rule.

    In one chapter in his story
    (though apocryphal, it's said),
    An apple, falling from a tree
    impacted on his head,
    Which drew his thoughts to gravity,
    and we all know where that led.

    He wondered if, by any chance,
    the self-same gravitation
    That pulls an apple to the ground,
    affected all creation:
    The moon, the planets, and the sun. . .
    Thus went his cogitation.

    He determined that the gravity
    of earth indeed controls
    The orbit of our moon, as 'round
    the earth it ever rolls.
    Now, describing it mathematically
    was one of Newton's goals.

    He discovered that the math you need
    to show the laws of nature,
    Surpassed the knowledge of that day;
    the cosmos' legislature
    Required new math, so Newton wrote
    his "fluxions" nomenclature.

    He talked of falling bodies
    and his famous Laws of Motion,
    And of colors seen in bubbles
    and the tides upon the ocean.
    And his crowning jewel, "Principia,"
    created great commotion.

    Yes, Newton's brilliant mind, it was
    a trunk with many twigs--
    His mind branched out in every way
    (right through his powdered wigs).
    His greatest contribution, though,
    was cookies made from figs.
    Sola gratia

    Sola fide

    Soli Deo gloria

    #2
    that's quite ironic, quoting somebody who didn't belive in christianity.....

    Comment


      #3
      Fuck me sideways, a whole post from Chico and no mention of God, Jesus, 3 Wise Men and a Donkey, and how we are all a bunch of self-styled atheists. Thought I'd never live to see the day...
      His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

      Comment


        #4
        Originally posted by Ardesco
        that's quite ironic, quoting somebody who didn't belive in christianity.....
        He didnt believe in his Country's religion, but he did believe in God.

        - not sure what affect that has, but thought i'd mention it.
        To be or not to be... or get someone else to be, and take the slack for it.

        Comment


          #5
          Roses Are Red,
          Violets are Blue,
          Saddams gonna hang from a rope,
          Like he should do....

          .... ?
          To be or not to be... or get someone else to be, and take the slack for it.

          Comment


            #6
            Originally posted by Mordac
            Fuck me sideways, a whole post from Chico and no mention of God, Jesus, 3 Wise Men and a Donkey, and how we are all a bunch of self-styled atheists. Thought I'd never live to see the day...

            How did you manage to say **** there without it being asterixed out?!
            The pope is a tard.

            Comment


              #7
              Because Mordac is the l33t CUK H4X0r!!!!

              In other words fuck me backwards with a fishfork, I have no bloody idea!!!

              Comment


                #8
                Fucking clever buggers! No one likes a show off!

                Oh, hang on a mo' . . .

                The vegetarian option.

                Comment


                  #9
                  Originally posted by SallyAnne
                  How did you manage to say **** there without it being asterixed out?!
                  Change the font colour of the middle letters to black, and you can say what you fucking like.



                  Edit:
                  >Because Mordac is the l33t CUK H4X0r!!!!

                  what the fuck is an "l33t CUK H4X0r!!!!"?
                  His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

                  Comment


                    #10
                    What Helios desperatly wanted to be

                    Comment

                    Working...
                    X