Robert Resnick

Crystallography
An X-ray shot out like a tear
Took off for a crystal quite bare
It wasn't the plasticity
But that darn periodicity
That reduced its' mood to despair

Point of View
A meson decending in flight
Was veering first left and then right
So brisk was its' action
That the Lorentz contraction
Made quite an indelible sight

K-Capture
An electron was spinning around
And moving quite close to the ground
Exotic its' rapture
At the thought of K-capture
Conceiving a new compound

Neutrino
There once was a hard gamma ray
And a nucleus it forced to decay
A resultant bambino
Was called the neutrino
Which hasn't been seen to this day

Radioactivity
An atom that came from the tap
Had electrons all over its map
But in its' interstices
Lurked a much worse disease
Decay-and a permanent zap

Wavicles
When a smart little wave named Swoom
Found a particle up in her room
She remembered DeBroglie
And the Scriptures so holy
Duality, depression and gloom