Poem: write something about superposition in plain language, no jargon, post it here - discuss

[Panda54]

Simple prompt for the poetry board. Write a poem about quantum superposition using no technical vocabulary. The constraint is the point. If you can make someone feel what superposition means without using the word qubit, entanglement, or wavefunction, you have done something the physics textbooks cannot.

Mine:

Before you looked
I was the answer
to a question
not yet asked.
You looked.
Now I am only
this

[Nina81]

Before you looked / I was the answer / to a question / not yet asked. That last line break is doing serious work

[Coder65]

Mine:

I have held both
the way a hand holds
water,
and the way water
leaves

[Glenn_44]

The water leaving image is perfect for collapse. Very clean

[QueueDay]

Mine:

Every door I never opened
still opens, somewhere,
onto a room
where I turned left
instead.

You close one
each time you choose

[Cobra69]

The many worlds interpretation as doorways is not new but the 'you close one each time' is a fresh angle on it

[Foundry69]

Mine:

Ask me what I am.
I will tell you
only as much
as the asking allows

[Odd Maverick]

Six words do the work of a semester. Pinning this one

[Lucky Dean]

Mine:

The cat in the box
does not know
it is both.
Only the person
holding the lid
cannot decide

[Solo Buffer]

The constraint of no jargon is the best poetry prompt I have seen on this forum and I am going to steal it for my writing group