Beyond the Lab: A Scientist's Meditation on a Poem

Steven Veatch (noreply@blogger.com)
By Steven Wade Veatch There are many ways to view and understand our world. Science provides theories, psychology probes human nature, philosophy ponders reality, religion shapes faith, and literature offers insight. Poetry, on the other hand, shines light into our lives, and reveals essential truths. Poetry inspires me; it is one way I experience and know the world. Poetry ’ s charged words make the speeding bullet of my life slow down so that I can enjoy the best parts of living. One of my fav