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There is a poem. I believe it was written by a US Poet Laureate, but I don't know which one, and maybe it wasn't. Its a poem about science, evolution, it might refer to us all being 'stardust'. Its very much like the lyrics to the Big Bang Theory theme song. I think there are dinosaurs and pyramids. Near the end there are Beatles lyrics adapted from I am the Walrus...I am he as you are he as you are we - but the poem might have changed those a little bit. I just haven't figure out how to google it up. Can anyone help me find this poem, its very cool. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A447:A6CD:1:6196:6752:2EFF:7A08 ( talk) 08:09, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, thanks Lambiam.That is a beautiful poem indeed, but not the one I'm looking for. I'm 99% sure the poet of the one I want is a man. The poem is similar, but longer, and crafted to be funny. And it definitely has the Walrus lyrics at the end. Still hoping someone can point me there... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A447:A6CD:1:6196:6752:2EFF:7A08 ( talk) 11:00, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, thanks Matt. Another cool and beautiful poem, and still not the one I'm looking for. But its a poem like that one. And really, it has the Beatles lyrics at the end, which I thought would make it easily google-able, but it hasn't proven so. I'm still hopeful that someone here at the ref desk can help me find the poem I'm looking for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A447:A6CD:1:4CD8:B6AF:960A:1E78 ( talk) 17:00, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
From the OP: I got it, I found it. The poem I've been looking for is called: A Poem for those wondering what it's all about. Murray Lachlan Young. Worth noting - he is/was not ever the US Poet Laureate, my bad. You can read this brilliant poem at: https://www.ourglobaldiary.com/chandnis-blog/a-poem-for-those-wondering-what-its-all-about-murray-lachlan-young (and other URLs). I will also try posting it here, I don't know if that breaks rules, if so, someone will remove it, I reckon. Thank you to people who tried to help me find the poem. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A447:A6CD:1:85B6:F48:E2DC:58C9 ( talk) 18:30, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
A Poem for those wondering what it's all about - Murray Lachlan Young
Please listen very carefully
For taken Hypothetically
Supported comprehensively
Basically originally
A single singularity
Exploded quite impressively
Expanded exponentially
Creating stars and galaxies
With what must be quite logically
And coolly cosmologically
The building blocks of you and me
And continents and land and sea
A process evolutionary
Through dinosaur hegemony
Into our human ancestry
To cultural diversity
A growing global family
Producing universities
Facilities, laboratories
Religion met the sciences
Where people made discoveries
Of fundamental articles
And elementary particles
Both magical and technical
And also Mathematical
And random and symmetrical
Chemical and classical
Explained the metaphysical
That all things were divisible
But there must be a particle
Much smaller than a neutron ball
When answering the Hadron call
Will finally inform us all
That we are one and we are all
That we are great and we are small
We are day and we are night
We are dark and we are light
And I am he
As you are he
As you are me
And we are all together
I am the egg man
I am the egg man
I am the Walrus!
Coo coo ca Chooo!
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A447:A6CD:1:85B6:F48:E2DC:58C9 ( talk) 18:32, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Hmm - sorry the formating was lost, don't know how to fix that, but I suppose its mostly obvious, or you can read it at the link above. Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A447:A6CD:1:85B6:F48:E2DC:58C9 ( talk) 18:34, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi all, our article on the Candace Award states that the last year it was given was 1992. However, I've found no source stating that except that we have an archived webpage only listing recipients up to 1992. Is anyone able to find sources confirming this one way or another? this form in fact, would suggest the award has been renamed the "Candace Women of Achievement Awards". However, this 2016 news article lists the 2016 luncheon as the 'thirteenth' such one, so it couldn't possibly have begun in 1982 as this one was. Searching for ""candace award" site: https://ncbw.org/" brings no results. Thoughts? Eddie891 Talk Work 15:26, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
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There is a poem. I believe it was written by a US Poet Laureate, but I don't know which one, and maybe it wasn't. Its a poem about science, evolution, it might refer to us all being 'stardust'. Its very much like the lyrics to the Big Bang Theory theme song. I think there are dinosaurs and pyramids. Near the end there are Beatles lyrics adapted from I am the Walrus...I am he as you are he as you are we - but the poem might have changed those a little bit. I just haven't figure out how to google it up. Can anyone help me find this poem, its very cool. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A447:A6CD:1:6196:6752:2EFF:7A08 ( talk) 08:09, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, thanks Lambiam.That is a beautiful poem indeed, but not the one I'm looking for. I'm 99% sure the poet of the one I want is a man. The poem is similar, but longer, and crafted to be funny. And it definitely has the Walrus lyrics at the end. Still hoping someone can point me there... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A447:A6CD:1:6196:6752:2EFF:7A08 ( talk) 11:00, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, thanks Matt. Another cool and beautiful poem, and still not the one I'm looking for. But its a poem like that one. And really, it has the Beatles lyrics at the end, which I thought would make it easily google-able, but it hasn't proven so. I'm still hopeful that someone here at the ref desk can help me find the poem I'm looking for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A447:A6CD:1:4CD8:B6AF:960A:1E78 ( talk) 17:00, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
From the OP: I got it, I found it. The poem I've been looking for is called: A Poem for those wondering what it's all about. Murray Lachlan Young. Worth noting - he is/was not ever the US Poet Laureate, my bad. You can read this brilliant poem at: https://www.ourglobaldiary.com/chandnis-blog/a-poem-for-those-wondering-what-its-all-about-murray-lachlan-young (and other URLs). I will also try posting it here, I don't know if that breaks rules, if so, someone will remove it, I reckon. Thank you to people who tried to help me find the poem. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A447:A6CD:1:85B6:F48:E2DC:58C9 ( talk) 18:30, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
A Poem for those wondering what it's all about - Murray Lachlan Young
Please listen very carefully
For taken Hypothetically
Supported comprehensively
Basically originally
A single singularity
Exploded quite impressively
Expanded exponentially
Creating stars and galaxies
With what must be quite logically
And coolly cosmologically
The building blocks of you and me
And continents and land and sea
A process evolutionary
Through dinosaur hegemony
Into our human ancestry
To cultural diversity
A growing global family
Producing universities
Facilities, laboratories
Religion met the sciences
Where people made discoveries
Of fundamental articles
And elementary particles
Both magical and technical
And also Mathematical
And random and symmetrical
Chemical and classical
Explained the metaphysical
That all things were divisible
But there must be a particle
Much smaller than a neutron ball
When answering the Hadron call
Will finally inform us all
That we are one and we are all
That we are great and we are small
We are day and we are night
We are dark and we are light
And I am he
As you are he
As you are me
And we are all together
I am the egg man
I am the egg man
I am the Walrus!
Coo coo ca Chooo!
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A447:A6CD:1:85B6:F48:E2DC:58C9 ( talk) 18:32, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Hmm - sorry the formating was lost, don't know how to fix that, but I suppose its mostly obvious, or you can read it at the link above. Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A447:A6CD:1:85B6:F48:E2DC:58C9 ( talk) 18:34, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi all, our article on the Candace Award states that the last year it was given was 1992. However, I've found no source stating that except that we have an archived webpage only listing recipients up to 1992. Is anyone able to find sources confirming this one way or another? this form in fact, would suggest the award has been renamed the "Candace Women of Achievement Awards". However, this 2016 news article lists the 2016 luncheon as the 'thirteenth' such one, so it couldn't possibly have begun in 1982 as this one was. Searching for ""candace award" site: https://ncbw.org/" brings no results. Thoughts? Eddie891 Talk Work 15:26, 24 January 2021 (UTC)