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Greta of The Memory Burns (who's been a real bloggin' fool today!) links to this highly amusing page of physics-related limericks. Here's one of my personal favorites as an example:

On Liquor Production
by David M. Smith

A friend who's in liquor production
Owns a still of astounding construction.
The alcohol boils
Through old magnet coils;
She says that it's "proof by induction."

Ha! I knew there was a reason why I suffered through those Electricity & Magentism classes! It was so I could get that joke!

Greta also links to the Poetic Table of the Elements, a clever little site which features poems about various elements on the periodic chart. From what I've looked at so far, I'd say that the quality varies a lot, but there's some real little poetic gems to be found there. For instance, here's one of the pieces under Neon (which I picked out to look at mainly because I drive a Dodge Neon):

Neon
By Eric Krupin

for a "noble gas"
you sure got the common touch
why i saw you just last night
at the local barandgrill
you was all pink and buzzy
just like me

OK. I like that.