Pythagoras Poems - Poems about Pythagoras

A Philosopher’s Grief

...We sit together in the shadowed halls beyond time—
Plato, Socrates, Spinoza, Protagoras,
Aristotle, Pythagoras, Kant, Descartes, Aquinas—
our words once rivers,
now dust in the mouths of men.

...

White Supremacy

...God said: “Go, and have dominion over the Earth”—
Not over each other.
But you crowned yourselves kings of skin,
Painted whiteness as wisdom,
And turned melanin into a mark of sin.

You called ...

Nightingale and Roses

...


“Nightingale and Roses”

the heart burst open
like a canary cracks open its cage with a song
listening to the nightingale with roses
flying like a throatful soul escapi...

THE RIGHT ANGLE

...
In
any
right
angle
triangle
the square
of the long side
is equal to the sum
of the squares of the 
two adjacent shorter sides,
according to Mister Pythagoras
...

You Are Enough Just As You Are

...
"Physical matter is music solidified" – Pythagoras 

You stand there with that rose in your hair 
singing that small song in a big big way 
your voice cracks and you stare at the air 
while ev...

Subterranean Homesick Blues - Archimedean Homesick Blues

...This poem, which is loaded with math terms, is to be sung to the tune of Subterranean Homesick Blues.  What was I thinking?  

Johnny’s in the basement
Working on geometry
You’ll see my intent
A...

Pythagorean Theorem Proof

...Pull up a chair, and don’t make a move!
We’ve got something we really must prove,
‘Bout sides of a right triangle, num’bring three.
You’ve somewhere to be?   I won’t hear your plea!

A plus B, s...

Daylight

...It feels like daylight is running in front of me with a radiant light brighter than the sea and a truck full of almond piled up in the yard while the chipmunks are shouting from abroad. I see some ru...

Inside This Cave

...Inside this cave, my refuge, nave
I bend and stretch and breath, 
to find myself among the ruins 
of ancient places, faces, and history. 

Although I strive to change the tide
of my own motivat...

A Phantasmagoria of Nonsense

...I searched in vain for inspiration.
I even climbed the sacred Parnassus
Where all the muses reside.
I danced with them
Engaged in endless discourse.
All in vain.

Then I resigned to my fate.
...

The Community of All Living Things

...The Community of All Living Things:
In their mechanisms; the one shared Mystery of harmony's praised
Amongst all of It's parts.
A cataclysmic symphony of information.

“A stone is frozen music.”...

Chemistry Class

...Now it seems they see that Chemistry
Is much more worse than pythagoras and trigonometry.
That they have to deal with questions
Much difficult than balancing equations.
And they have to master th...

The Philosopher

...Philosopher, they call me,
Following Pythagoras* of old,
A friend of wisdom it means and
Nothing more.

For years philosophy’s principles
I tried to understand and
For decades her ethics striv...

Chomsky's Ny Times Swooning

...By Moji Agha
(April 20, 2016--Tucson, AZ)

Chomsky's NY Times Swooning

"I swoon on the NY Times Op-Ed page,
every eleven weeks or so,"
said Prof. Noam Chomsky,
in the sufi monk's (actual) dr...

A Poem For My Algebra Teacher

...I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried not to retract, 
but after so many tears 
I have to take th...

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