Isaac Newton: The Man Who Discovered Gravity Poem by narayana aghalaya

he is at the top of the list
of modern times' greatest scientists

Isaac Newton born.premature
as a child he was of.small stature

'he could have fit in a quart mug'
his mother would tell with a shrug

father died before Isaac's birth
and mother re-wed man of worth

Newton's rich cleric step-father
didn't want a step-son to bother

Isaac's childhood was sans much mirth
with grandma and food from her hearth

for school, his mom thought him, unfit
work on farm, he didn't like a bit

from this tough background Isaac rose
volumes.on him in verse and prose

Prinicipia his magnum opus
law of gravity world famous

Newton under an apple tree
saw an apple, straight-down, fall.free

this set him up on gravity
inverse square law in brevity

never butt head on a brick wall
that is a suicidal call
which we learnt from Newton's third law
the ignorant call it all blah-blah

with Leibniz he had a dispute
on calculus which is so cute

who invented first this technique?
now proved both did - that was unique

planets'.motion around the Sun
Newton's proof convinced all, none shunned

has one heard of.Newton's rings
not those diamond.engagement.things
because, he never thought to wed,
but optics where his reach had spread?

he worked much on alchemy
lead to gold, bit of fantasy

as an MP he seldom spoke
it seems this rule just once he broke
in The House, withan usher
totell, 'too chill; close that shutter '

later years as.master of mint
to the gallows, many he sent
for making counterfeit coins
by public he was.lauded, hence

a most remarkable journey
for one whose birth.was sheer agony