A “NOVEL” Story of Life in Salt
In a soft and salty embrace
You were hiding
In oblivion
But deep down
wanting to be found
and known
Who knows
if you found me
or I found you
But YOU tiny life
Destined to be known
It’s a story of your survival
And a redefinition
of my work
as you came
and changed
the whole course of it
I gave you a microcosm
Stressed
And depressed
Like a bygone Mars?
Like I was searching for you
You grew
Not one
Not two
But three of you
And science
will come to know you
With a name and a personality
For the very first time
In its entire lifetime
Your existence
Evolving in pigments
Yellows and whites
And reds
You love all
whether its sodium chloride
or epsomite
and that makes you bright
and you can also hide
for an indefinite time?
because spores you got
and your genes say a lot
about your dormant plot
and the ancient style of sustenance of you all
As much salty is planet Mars
As apt you are
To have flowed in the brines of early Mars?
So yes
a lot
is yet to be thought
But YOU
Will always be the offspring of AstrobiologyOU
And
You are mine
For eternity
~ Anushree Srivastava
Today is National Poetry Day!
Here is a poem written by one of our former PhD students Dr Anushree Srivastava about her discovery of novel microbial species
You can find her blog on our website and you can listen to Anushree read her poem!
#SciencePoetry #NationalPoetryDay #ScienceMeetsArt
