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If You Don't Fit In, Poem 1/1/2016, Charles Kay Smith Jan 2016

If You Don't Fit In, Poem 1/1/2016, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Can those who stand awry their culture best serve society?


Cats And Dogs And Humans, Poem 11/23/2015, Charles Kay Smith Nov 2015

Cats And Dogs And Humans, Poem 11/23/2015, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Thoughts on science, inequality and the economy


Happy Halloween Song For My Grandchildren, Charles Kay Smith Oct 2015

Happy Halloween Song For My Grandchildren, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

No abstract provided.


Happy Halloween Poem For My Grandchildren, Charles Kay Smith Oct 2015

Happy Halloween Poem For My Grandchildren, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Halloween poem written for children about 10 years old. This poem was set to a simple tune, but music does not open on SelectedWorks, so this is just the verse without the music.


For My Brother, Prescott Smith: Died Suddenly September 24, 2015, Charles Kay Smith Oct 2015

For My Brother, Prescott Smith: Died Suddenly September 24, 2015, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

This is an elegy for my brother written the week following his death.


Dusk And Dawn And Drops Of Dew, An Update Of A Prose/Poem 9/12/15, Charles Kay Smith Sep 2015

Dusk And Dawn And Drops Of Dew, An Update Of A Prose/Poem 9/12/15, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

A Poem on two natural phenomena that can occur on the same joyous day. The poem does not copy Wordsworth's imagery, but attempts to resonate with his spirit. this is a new version of the 9/12/2015 poem "May Lovely Moments Grace your Day" with a new title uploaded on September 20, 2016. While I was working on this poem, a tune I had never heard before kept insisting that I shoud set the poem to music. If it is possible, I'll soon upload this poem as a song.


Suncircles: A Prose/Poem 12/18/2014, Charles Kay Smith Dec 2014

Suncircles: A Prose/Poem 12/18/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

A current project is writing a book of poetry. The different kind of poetry I’m trying to write melds science, humanities, and aesthetic aims of clarity and a polished plain style with social consciousness. I’m uploading one of the poems in the collection as an example of the kind of poetry I’m trying to compose.


Innovative Representations Of Light, Behaving As Both Particles And Waves, Among The Paintings Of Monet And Renoir, Charles Smith Nov 2014

Innovative Representations Of Light, Behaving As Both Particles And Waves, Among The Paintings Of Monet And Renoir, Charles Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Monet and Renoir, friends collaborating in open air about 1865, discovered that sunlight filtering through a canopy of tree leaves does not produce the splotches and dapples that studio artists conventionally represented at the time but circles of light. Sometimes the circles of light punctuating the shade are clear, separate and crisp, as though light is being propagated as particles, but if the pin-hole gaps between leaves are very close together, they will project compound or superimposed circles that look like the waves that Thomas Young saw in his double slit experiment in 1803-4. Newton’s Opticks published in 1704 had …


Shadows Know, A Poem 11/12/2014, Charles Smith Nov 2014

Shadows Know, A Poem 11/12/2014, Charles Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Partly written during an illness several years ago; I finished it last year.


Elegy For Allen, Prose/Poem 9/12/2014, Charles Smith Sep 2014

Elegy For Allen, Prose/Poem 9/12/2014, Charles Smith

Charles Kay Smith

This Elegy is a poetic version of a eulogy I made at Allen Midyett's memorial service in late summer of 2013.


Dress Shopping With Ginny, A Prose/Poem 8/5/2014, Charles Smith Aug 2014

Dress Shopping With Ginny, A Prose/Poem 8/5/2014, Charles Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Another poetic experiment that opens an alternative direction for future work.


Frederick Ii: Holy Roman Emperor Extraordinaire, Prose/Poem 7/23/2014, Charles Kay Smith Jul 2014

Frederick Ii: Holy Roman Emperor Extraordinaire, Prose/Poem 7/23/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Frederick avoided fighting the 6th Crusade by negotiating a peaceful sharing of Jerusalem by people of all faiths. No doubt it helped that he spoke Arabic and personally engaged in five months of negotiations rather than combat.


Blowin’ Against The Wind, Prose/Poem 7/17/2014, Charles Kay Smith Jul 2014

Blowin’ Against The Wind, Prose/Poem 7/17/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Thoughts on Science, Contemporary Poetry and Human Nature.


To My Children, A Poem 7/10/2014, Charles Kay Smith Jul 2014

To My Children, A Poem 7/10/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

My children tend to take death more seriously than I do. This poem gently points them in an alternative direction.


Jeanne D'Arc: Maid Of Oleans, A Prose/Poem 6/4/2014, Charles Kay Smith Jun 2014

Jeanne D'Arc: Maid Of Oleans, A Prose/Poem 6/4/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

A poem introducing a theory of how Joan, an illiterate teenager, inspired a demoralized French army to defeat the English.


Soliciting The Universe, A Prose/Poem 4/1/2014, Charles Kay Smith Mar 2014

Soliciting The Universe, A Prose/Poem 4/1/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Why it may not be wise to radio our presence into outer space, but why humans are compelled by their neotenic proclivities to be curious and to solicit attention.


Elegy In An American Graveyard, Prose/Poem 3/27/2014, Charles Kay Smith Mar 2014

Elegy In An American Graveyard, Prose/Poem 3/27/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

An update of Thomas Grey's majestic Elegy In A Country Churchyard. Our Economy is very different and so must be our politics.


Born In 1930, Prose/Poem 3/7/2014, Charles Kay Smith Mar 2014

Born In 1930, Prose/Poem 3/7/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

A homage to Presidrnt Franklin D. Roosevelt. In his America, political democracy was extended toward economic democracy. His policies began to be reversed in the 1980s. We are living in the desert of inequality created by that reversal.


American Inequality, A Prose/Poem 3/2/2014, Charles Smith Mar 2014

American Inequality, A Prose/Poem 3/2/2014, Charles Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Science has made possible an increased productivity that creates an economic surplus--science continually teaches us how to do more with less resources. Why should the fruits of science be enjoyed only by the rich, since most of the innovations of science and technology have been funded or subsidized by citizen taxes. If the added productivity of science were shared among all citizens instead of only the 1%, poverty and homelessness could be ended.


Hadrian's Beard, A Prose/Poem 2/26/2014, Charles Smith Feb 2014

Hadrian's Beard, A Prose/Poem 2/26/2014, Charles Smith

Charles Kay Smith

In his official portraits, Roman Emperor Hadrian sported a Greek beard rather than the clean shaven face that all Roman leaders had shown before him. What was his purpose in shattering precedent?


To Mr. Death, Prose/Poem 2/21/2014, Charles Kay Smith Feb 2014

To Mr. Death, Prose/Poem 2/21/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Another experimantal poem. I was attempting to achieve maximum compression.


Hadrian's Beard, A Poem 2/19/2014, Charles Kay Smith Feb 2014

Hadrian's Beard, A Poem 2/19/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

No abstract provided.