National Poetry Month: Rise

It is, again, #NationalPoetryMonth. 2016, the new year brings with it many hopes, goals, dreams, along with their uncertainties. Uncertainties often point to new learning, what we need to discover, develop, assimilate, even change. New learning results in growth, adaptation. 

Growth and adaptation are simply the triumph of innate resources over environmental conditions with help from enrichment and privileges. Inspired by an image of the lofty redwoods, and all the implications of gravity, our rich Earth, and space travel, here is an untitled poem dedicated to the triumph of nature and humanity. It venerates the strength we derive from superceding the power of what either keeps us grounded or keeps us from transcending.

‎I rise.

Gravity keeps me grounded,

And still I RISE.‎

Strength of the Redwood via dailyword.com

Rooted in the nourishing Earth,
I reach outward, upward,
for that blue,
the sky.

I Am Strong.‎

I stand majestic.

Towering.

Reaching for the stars

And beyond.

I rise.‎
©2016

How has Poetry enriched your life? What lofty ideals has it inspired you to stretch for? Which poets keep you grounded? Which ones stir your soul? 

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Principia

It is easy to imagine how thrilling a time it must have been in academia and philosophical societies in Isaac Newton's time when his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica was published on this day, 1687. A seminal work which established the foundation of the study of physics and astronomy, Isaac Newton is highly respected in STEM circles. 

In broadening the outline of Isaac Newton's 3 elegant principles of motion as constancy, consistency, and resistance, what are some of the ways it can inform your life and your interests?