Today the prompt in Carpe Diem is Tako (kite). As a physicist I got to think about Benjamin Franklin and the discovery of Electricity. (don’t try this at home)
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Benjamin Franklin, the first American and one of the founding fathers was also an author, inventor, musician and politician. As a physicist I will always recall how he showed how electricity works by flying a kite during a thunderstorm. And how he could lead the current from the flash into ground, by that also being the first to define the positive and negative polarity. The risk of being electrocuted was obvious and as a matter of fact several people trying the same actually suffered this sinister destiny.
kite in lighting storm
risk of electrocution
science sacrifice
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March 27, 2013
Björn Rudbergs writings 
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I really like this ! Just a gentle word..sacrifice..
Thank you. Sometimes you hate the spell check.. but at times like this I should have checked.
my pleasure you may need to do the same for me sometime !
🙂
beautiful, B!
I also have a scientific background too and am always pleased to see the blend of science and poetry…a natural “marriage” as I see it.
I will use it more I think….
There have been so many sacrifices in the name of science. You bring bring your expertise and passions together well Bjorn 🙂
I could never have been that committed!
Physicist haiku 🙂 Yes, much sacrificed for science.
Old Ben Franklin
got a charge studying
current events
🙂
Brilliant
What a nice way to do this prompt! I’m a historian, so I appreciate it from that angle, too. And I see it below yours, I like JazzBumpa’s too, here.
Thank you. It’s a nice form and I try to wrote haibun every now and again.
Wow! Thanks for the info, Bjorn. Great haiku
I feel inspired to write a Haiku later on the prompt. Good starter!
Your unusual take on the prompt is both refreshing and exciting, speaking , as it does, to the heart of haiku, which is to fold our own unique moments and sensibilities into a three line poem!
Thank you, I’m so thankful to be introduced to the concept of haibun, bringing in haiku as a way to combine prose and haiku.
I was hoping someone would bring Ben Franklin into this kite discussion!
Kites
Strangely enough it was my first thought.
I couldn’t help but smile.
Smile is good 🙂
You crack me up! (that means laugh)
I’m glad for that 🙂
Yes Science needs sometimes sacrefices 🙂
Very interesting take on the prompt…the info adds value to your blog! Thanks
Nice…last line made me smile.☺
Peace
Siggi