My, the year is almost gone and I, busy with other stuff, didn’t publish a single post. Luckily, I came across Elemental haiku — a periodic table of haikus, one per element, plus one for a hypothetical element 119. Here are my favourites.
2. Helium
Begin universe.
Wait three minutes to enter.
Stay cool. Don’t react.
11. Sodium
Racing to trigger
every kiss, every kind act;
behind every thought.
13. Aluminum/Aluminium
Spent kindergarten
endlessly writing your name.
One i or two i’s?
26. Iron
Anvil, axe, nail, plow,
engine, railway, factory.
Servant, friend, partner.
30. Zinc
Clasp your neighbor tight.
Sound the music while you dance,
trumpet, bugle, horn.
39. Yttrium
That is not a name.
That is a spelling error.
Or a Scrabble bluff.
67. Holmium
The root of the name
elementary, my dear.
Stockholm, not Sherlock.
80. Mercury
Madness the price paid
for your molten alchemy.
Metal. Planet. God.
