Algebraic Poems

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...Algebra makes me feel stupid.
Equations and inequalities,
algebra makes me feel stupid.
I could have an A in the grade book, but that doesn't mean that I understand. 
lost in class, barely turned...

The Truth

...("A Moment of Grace" aka "The Empty Mirror", 2024, original encaustic)

The Truth

If you follow the truth,
And are foolhardy enough to try and describe it,
You end up with something
Th...

Chapter 9-- Damian Hakim: Excellent School Daze and Adrianna

...Today made a complete first week
In November 2017. Damian was 
Preforming well in his studies. He
Even chose to involve himself in
Extra credit projects. This school
Day started normally. He arr...

Zero

...You're nothing. Yet, the highest of worth to numbers you add,
Could one think of the algebraic structures without you?
In your addition, numbers, like bricks on buildings, get clad,
You play a pla...

School Dazed

...Latin waiter….”Et tu Brute”

Artistic restraint
“just why is it that the pumpkin MUST be orange.”

Field trips
A 2nd grader wonders: “Just who is it that the corn stalks?”

Punishment
Write ...

Spineless In the Running

...Was this a bold  endeavour or worst-case high risk plot?
 In one sense I was caught between two poles apart  concerns.
One must never underestimate indeed trivialise a devilish 
difficult decision...

An Algebra Poem

...Every now and then I am asked to write a poem…an honor for which I feel blessed…
but yesterday, in all honesty, I received a very strange request.

I recently wrote a poem on how basic math relate...

Y

...In school we had to learn algebra.
Ex: ½y - 3 = 2-½y 
We had to find y, but why?

In life, I never needed to use any type of these algebraic equations, yet somehow, I still find myself trying to ...

A Conversation With Walter Mitty

...“Azure blue sky dreamer.
Where you bound today of mystifying  days?
Can you hear me through that enigmatic fog?
Your Milky Way incarnate hyper trance phase.”

“Fellow wonderland  adventurer.
I’...

I'M Doing Just Fine Counting To Nine

...I'm no expert mathematician
Can't do algebraic addition
And solving quadratic equations
are way beyond my expectations
Both hands counting as some people teach
even number ten is beyond reach
A...

Notes On Truth

...— This poem describes our journey from the reality of life to the truth of death.
— The introductory “then” connoting ‘in medias res’ is reminiscent of the opening of Dante’s journey to the inferno ...

The Boys In the Back

...The Boys in The Back
By Sy Roth

The right hand turned the waters 360 degrees
Then another willful rotation
Until the bubbling chicken-fatty waters splashed over the sides
While the boys in the...

Birth To Infinity

...Germ of essence. 
Human blob. 
Shattered eggshell to the chicklet hatched.
Interlocking  family of a  kingdom.
Beget or begone? Antigone! 
Pouch bearing mammal  with no issue for her milk a plen...

Let's Be Kinder

...In his essay "Let's Be Reasonable" 
Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers]
reduces reasonable to logical;

This is a common left-brain dominant error,
confusion between deductive premises
and cold...

Angels Fall, As I

...Angels fall at your feet ...

  -  To savor the tang of truth - to kiss Heaven's visage
          And sate horrid hearts, they feign you - Immaculate ...

  -  To tend the scars of id, vacant, f...

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