Here are a couple of new poems that I found. I think the first provides an interesting insight how logic can be applied to the question of "why are we here." It also presents a sad fact: the universe can be at times apathetic. The second is an ode to madame Curie.

A Man Said to the Universe

by Stephen Crane

A man said to the universe:

"Sir, I exist!"

"However," replied the universe,

"The fact has not created in me

"A sense of obligation."

To Madame Curie

by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Oft have I thrilled at deeds of high emprise,

And yearned to venture into realms unknown,

Thrice blessed she, I deemed, whom God had shown

How to achieve great deeds in woman's guise.

Yet what discov'ry by expectant eyes

Of foreign shores, could vision half the throne

Full gained by her, whose power fully grown

Exceeds the conquerors of th' uncharted skies?

So would I be this woman whom the world

Avows its benefactor; nobler far,

Than Sybil, Joan, Sappho, or Egypt's queen.

In the alembic forged her shafts and hurled

At pain, diseases, waging a humane war;

Greater than this achievement, none, I ween.

--Ben