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The 2025 Brilliant Poetry Competition Shortlisted Poems: Crispo Chang

Poem by Crispo Chang
Published Oct 23, 2025

Brilliant Poetry is an international competition that invites participants from around the world every year to explore scientific discoveries and curiosity through poetic expression.  

Aligned with the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), marking a century since the formulation of quantum mechanics, Brilliant Poetry aims this year to highlight the power of artistic expression, making the complexities of science accessible, beautiful, and profoundly inspiring.

During the call for participants, poets were encouraged to engage with the principles and paradoxes of quantum science, exploring their intellectual and human significance. 

After closing the submissions on July 30, the jury started the selection process. In September, ten outstanding poems were selected for a shortlist that was announced early this month.  

We are thrilled to publish each of them on the official blog of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Winners of the first, second, and third places will be announced on November 10.

Father’s Love

by Crispo Chang

Though I have never seen it, they say it’s there
Around me, in me, everywhere – an axiom.
A pattern of interference, I feel,
But when I try to take a look, it all collapses
Into a quantised packet, invisible to my eyes
As if it has always been like that.
Is it a wave? A particle? Or neither?
A duality, perhaps,
Showing different faces at different times
If needs be: an unsolvable mystery it remains,
But at least a theory that explains.
Then, I remember, we are entangled.
I look into the mirror and determine, this boy
Had grown into a man, one so familiar.
At the very moment, though distances apart,
I finally recognise, here and now,
The properties of my father’s love.




















Crispo Chang is an amateur poet and a college student, with a passion for transcribing the small things in everyday life into poetry. 















				

				

				
				

				

									
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