Haiku inspired by Science

Dedicated to Nick Coleman and other scientist fans of short-form poetry. 

Venus-Jupiter conjunction

Venus, Jupiter
A triumph of perspective 
​Flirt across the void

Jupiter, Venus
Long distance relationship
Conjugal visit

Event horizon
The tyranny of choice meets
Determinism

Using toilet rolls,
Meaure the solar system
Up to Uranus

May the Fourth

Collector's items
Galaxies far far away
Bizarre word order
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Black Rhinoceros
Unicorn, mythical beast
​Lost history

Oprhan unicorn
Of the White Rhinoceros
Barren six remain
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Mars
We hailed your blood hue
Took you as our god of war
Come we now in peace

Venus

Transit of Venus
White world sails through space and time Eclipsing others

Feeling kin of itchy
Rush of youtube subscribers
A post viral rash?

Folding paper planes
Checking diherdral angles
Looking to nature

Water cooler chat
Newton versus Einstein
Rainbows on the wall

Axis of evil
Extrapolates existence
Approaches zero

Quantum mechanics
Loopholes in Newton's first law
A few bad apples


Golden Rectangles
Endlessly subtracting squares
Golden Rectangles
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Quantum tunneling
Pushing against a brick wall
Get me outa here

Synaesthesia
Flashbacks to Federation
​Chemically enhanced
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