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Sunday, August 13, 2006

An Ode to Dolly (Concerning Dolly's Role in Global Warming)

(a science poem about the first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep clone, and the nature of the culture wars between religion and science)

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An Ode to Dolly
Re: Global Warming

Dolly had a little lamb.
It came the natural way.
Now everything that Mary’s can
A clone can do today.

“To clone,” you say, ”is playing God.
‘Tis sacrilegious. Nay.
We’ll lose our Faith, you know we will,
If we use tech that way.”

But “He helps him who helps himself”
Encourages men to plan
The use of nature in wondrous ways
To accomplish all we can.

What matters most in this age
Of stress from hotter days,
Is saving genes that work for us
No matter what the ways.

By Valerie Coskrey © 2006


You may share this poem with others if you give me credit for it. It is copyrighted. Publication requires my permission, although I will most likely be happy to give it. If you wish to place it in your blog or website, please link-back to here or to http://www.vforteachers.com , and tell me in the comment that you did so, please.

This posting was modified 31Dec08. Originally posted in 2006.
Cloning: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides (Oneworld))After Dolly: The Promise and Perils of Cloning

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Louis Shalako said...

I like your poem very much, Valerie.

Valerie said...

This poem is included in Pearson's educational text that was just republished in 2019.

Read to Achieve: Gateway to Academic Reading
By David Rothman, Jilani Warsi
Published by Pearson
Copyright © 2013
Published Date: Jun 21, 2019

http://www.mypearsonstore.com/bookstore/read-to-achieve-gateway-to-academic-reading-9780205578061?xid=PSED

The link shows the book and its table of contents. The poem is listed in Chapter 2.