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)

This photo of a sheep and her lamb is NOT Dolly, but is from Fotolia [© foto.fritz - FOTOLIA
fotolia_397073 sheep with lamb and full wool coat.jpg] Get more from this photographer.
schaf 7 © foto.fritz

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.

Tags: Global Warming, sheep, clone, Dolly, sustainablity, poem, poetry, science poem, culture wars, religion vs science, science vs religion

Cloning: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides (Oneworld))After Dolly: The Promise and Perils of Cloning