I’ve just noticed something odd:
Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter,
Saturn, Neptune and Pluto
Are all famous Roman Gods.
There’s one whose namesake is unique:
Uranus, he’s Greek.
A primitive, primal sky-god…
Not one of the more famous
Members of the pantheon.
And his Roman equivalent, Caelus
Is a name that trips perfectly well off the tongue
So what I want to know is why
Would you name a planet after
An obscure god of the sky,
In a different language altogether,
Unless you just wanted every scientist ever
To have to keep saying “Uranus”
Forever?
Tom Juniper Poetry 