CERN community, we asked you to send us your CERN-related Valentine’s poems, thank you for all the entries that we received! It wasn’t easy to pick a favourite, but in the end, here is our winning English poem:
Ninety five percent of the
Universe
has not been discovered, yet
My search for perfection stopped
when I saw you – si parfaite
You
Open
ed the
Gateway
to my heart
You’re in all my
Ideas
, fair and
Square
The force that draws me to you
Is stronger than the ions from
LEIR
I had my whole week blocked
To just look at you in awe
until you broke my heart by saying
“I work in Prevessin”
When it comes to you,
I don’t have to think twice
Will you meet me halfway
At
CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice
?
In the end it’s you and me,
Surrounded by all this neige
Our own little Quantum Entanglement
Where Data becomes Knowledge
By Varsha Bhat (IT/CD)
A special mention also goes to the CMS and ATLAS haikus:
What is CMS?
Compact Muon Solenoid.
The best detector.
By Sofia Hurst (EP/CMX)
I love you, ATLAS.
CMS got long bus rides.
We got point 1. ha.
By Rea Thornberry (EP/UAT)
The authors of the winning English poem and winning French poem each receive a goodie bag from the CERN shop including “I love CERN” socks, an attractive magnetic pencil and a Standard Model notebook to compose more odes to technology.
Thank you once again to everyone who entered. The full list of poems is available here: https://cern.ch/2024-poems (CERN login required).