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Poem originally written for my friend Anna

They say one only can be wise, If able to mathematize. But what really underlies, Is the failure to alphabetize. Our numbers are arabicized, A language to be more precise. So is everything programmized, Just language, oversimplified. So maths freaks, wouldn’t it be wise To speak in poems, homogenize, Don’t let us feel lobotomized Let’s feel the love, romanticize! *** April 14, 2017 Copyright © Darren White

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Richard Palmer

Date: 10/10/2017 6:39:00 AM

love the flow,i'm hooked on rhymes,enjoyed these lines,great write Darren

Ram R. V.

Date: 10/4/2017 6:27:00 PM

A predicament nicely thematized. Darren, you've wittily lobotomized MATH. I enjoyed reading it:) By the way, these Arabic numerals are of Indian origin, as you may know.

Nandini Nk

Date: 4/27/2017 7:50:00 AM

Mathematicians please be alittle poetic for abetter life

Darren White
Date: 4/27/2017 7:53:00 AM

Exactly! Thank you :)

Elle Kilma

Date: 4/18/2017 5:46:00 AM

It was like a comet just landed on my mind. LOVE IT!!! And Thanks for giving credit to the Arabic language. These days it seems that it's ok to kick people off planes for speaking Arabic--yet the fools don't know how it's influenced our own culture.

Elle Kilma
Date: 4/18/2017 6:56:00 PM

haha, love it 'afwan. You can speak it?

Darren White
Date: 4/18/2017 5:50:00 AM

'afwan, Elle :) And yes, you're totally right. The fear that is programmed into us is quite ridiculous. Thank you for liking my poem.

Arthur Vaso

Date: 4/17/2017 10:49:00 PM

my most sincere apologies, I made a huge typo, I said "36tars" I should have said "63sratZz/3" sorry I miscalculated! Thank you Sheldon for the correction!

Darren White
Date: 4/17/2017 11:51:00 PM

ersatz, sorry, lol silly friend :)

Lisa Ricci

Date: 4/17/2017 2:06:00 PM

Good Evening Darren. You bet alpabetize programmized monogenize and above all romanticize. You are a riot and a half and yes very original and clever. This was enjoyable to read. It was actually a feel good entry. Have a wonderful night. Well done entirely. Now about that mathematize... (lol)

Darren White
Date: 4/17/2017 2:09:00 PM

Yes, Lisa? Do I hear a speech incoming? (haha) Thank you :)

Nette Onclaud

Date: 4/17/2017 1:36:00 PM

math is my waterloo but you gave it a new concept, darren... enticed!,,best of easter and huggs

Darren White
Date: 4/17/2017 2:09:00 PM

Waterloocized is a serious condition, Nette!

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 4/17/2017 12:53:00 AM

Well done and a most difficult undertaking to boot!

Darren White
Date: 4/17/2017 1:09:00 AM

Thank you Richard :) My friend Anna and I like to make up funny words and then I write a poem with them.

Arthur Vaso

Date: 4/16/2017 9:52:00 PM

I ca3 onl4 sa7 89-56 +14 sqaured/89 + 89364-9585+kdkdir *M2 5 8 why * how - love and *73836tars = 893746% * $$$$ 23 #$ 6584752-45874d(89sa) * 453s2

Richard Lamoureux
Date: 4/17/2017 12:52:00 AM

Clever Arthur!

Darren White
Date: 4/16/2017 11:07:00 PM

erm :D Vaso! So glad you love it, equate me the equator and I still love YOU <3

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 4/16/2017 8:28:00 PM

You put a thinking cap on for this one. Or someone could write a poem using numerology symbols of letters for numbers. It could be quite mysterious!

Darren White
Date: 4/16/2017 11:08:00 PM

And it would be totally fun Andrea, as long as it rhymes ;)

Arthur Vaso
Date: 4/16/2017 9:57:00 PM

I 574637304*9(039484&4)/5 :)

White Wolf

Date: 4/16/2017 5:45:00 PM

I can see you had fun on this one, Duir! Well done mate! I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy! That's an old one but still funny in my book!

Darren White
Date: 4/16/2017 11:08:00 PM

It is :D Hi Budgie, glad you love this one my friend.

Ingrid Showalter Swift

Date: 4/16/2017 7:50:00 AM

Ahhaha just love the last stanza! Fun in the write!

Darren White
Date: 4/16/2017 11:09:00 PM

Hi Ingrid, glad to see I made you laugh, thanks for looking me up here :)

Sara Ella

Date: 4/15/2017 3:22:00 PM

Lovin' the numbers Darren! They cannot go wrong ;) <3

Darren White
Date: 4/16/2017 1:28:00 AM

hahaha, for YOU, my friend! <3

Niall Fulham

Date: 4/15/2017 11:08:00 AM

Hi Darren, great write you have formalised :) Happy Easter to one and all

Darren White
Date: 4/16/2017 1:27:00 AM

Nial, thank you so much :) Happy Easter to you too.

Alexis Y.

Date: 4/15/2017 10:55:00 AM

WoW! Darren, What a great monorhyme. I really enjoyed it through and through. And the last line was amazing. A without a doubt seven:-) Alexis

Darren White
Date: 4/16/2017 1:27:00 AM

Hah, yes, was fun, doing this monorhyme. Thank you SO much for the 7 :)

Anil Deo

Date: 4/15/2017 3:45:00 AM

Darren, praise the LORD and Poets! Yes, poetry ... eventually connects with music, and music with beats/counts/math. Glad u were so productive yesterday. God is good and He is Healing Darren White, his Beloved son, living in Holland. Onse Here is baie goed.Shalom - BTW, a seven for this poem. Anil Deo

Darren White
Date: 4/15/2017 10:17:00 AM

Thank you for the 7 :) Dat is baie goed!

Chuck Melugin

Date: 4/15/2017 3:11:00 AM

Darren, Your words cause poets to fantasize, not a word to scrutinize. Great original writing, my best, chuck

Darren White
Date: 4/15/2017 10:16:00 AM

Yeah, that's the intention, thank you :)

Anne-Marie Coreggia

Date: 4/14/2017 9:23:00 PM

Yes, Darren! It would be so much wiser to speak in poems. I just wrote a very simple one 'Quel nouveau monde?' about Christopher Colombus first voyage and i was stunned to see how people responded on the French poetry site I come from. It raised many questioned and we had a great exchange:)

Darren White
Date: 4/14/2017 11:50:00 PM

That's funny! And yeah, raising a question can lead to great discussion. à bientôt mon amie :)

Maria Williams

Date: 4/14/2017 8:29:00 PM

I think you should be 'congratulized' on this 'mathemiszed', 'poemized' poem - funny and clever Darren 'Wize'

Darren White
Date: 4/14/2017 11:47:00 PM

Hahaha, like it that you like it ;)

Emile Pinet

Date: 4/14/2017 12:13:00 PM

You have a quick wit and a colorful imagination ...a deadly combination to success. Emile.

Darren White
Date: 4/14/2017 12:39:00 PM

Emile, thank you :) I hope that will be a good combination for a long time.

Doug Vinson

Date: 4/14/2017 11:39:00 AM

There is poetry in numbers, great entrancing mansions of color, graceful flying arabesques and sinuous spiraling declines to earth. We are almost all programmed for language, but less for mathematics.

Doug Vinson
Date: 4/15/2017 1:46:00 PM

Okay, yeah.... The "pure science" thing of math.... Well, different strokes for different folks, or as they say in dear old Blighty (and apparently, the land of Oz), it's "horses for courses." Some may find poetry in math, but if they miss out on the poetry in, for example, poetry, then too bad.

Darren White
Date: 4/14/2017 11:43:00 AM

There is, but there is also a lot of contentment in making fun of some scholars who see everything that does not involve pure math or physics as something inferior :) My friend and I were ridiculing that attitude.