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Best Calculations Poems

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Premium Member Contemplating Calculations
You could say:  
       Variety attracts a free spirit, a soul with curiosity - 
   ...

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Categories: calculations, simple, words,
Form: Rhyme



Coffee Cup Calculations - Poet's Cut
Based on BBC news article "Maths zeroes in on perfect cup of coffee"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37989169


Two billion cups a day we drink
To stay awake so we can think
Tireless...

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Categories: calculations, drink, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Poem For Michael
Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician 
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision 
to respond to you 
our multi-versed 
mathematical...

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Categories: calculations, abuse, angst, discrimination, identity,
Form: Rhyme
The Butterfly You Cannot See
Once a caterpillar between a dream and reality thought she could be beautiful
~so on she dreamed...
Creating a shell to protect
under the bright new moon

The Cocoon~

Inside...

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© Cindy Lu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: calculations, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Winter Journey End
WINTER JOURNEY’S END

Their calculations must have been at fault
Their instruments in need to calibrate
That wandering star’s location in the vault
Had seemed a compass true, inviolate

The...

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Categories: calculations, christian,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Tiger In His Glory
A stealthy tiger stalks his prey
His eyes alight with cunning gleam;
And tho' the world may peaceful seem
The lissome springboks graze and play --
The danger lurks,...

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Categories: calculations, animal, cat, death, power,
Form: Quintilla
I Am Who I Am
I Am Who I Am

Date: Wed, Dec 23 2015 at 8:11 PM

I don't wear no disguise
My True Self I can't hide
Without God I don't want...

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Categories: calculations, i am, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Exasperation Over Expectations
Today’s students strive only to meet expectations
We used to go all out to exceed expectations
Young people have no real goals, just vague destinations
Their minds seem...

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Categories: calculations, angst, schoolpeople, people,
Form: Monorhyme
Moon N Me
As darkness absorbed in my reveries, my usual lapse accommodated itself in height of melancholy but not in this conscience. Then I found myself in...

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© Hina Nasir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: calculations, anxiety, conflict, depression, fantasy,
Form: Prose
A Theoretical Assumption Into the Causation of Earth's Rotation
1000 miles per hour scientists have calculated the Earth’s rotation
And 25000 miles in 24 hours according to their quotation
They say it is the distance from...

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Categories: calculations, funnypeople, change, earth, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Invisible Jim and the Ghost
Can you see
through to his invisibility
Don’t grasp onto
who you need him to be.
Sure, he’s a bit complicated
Let him be fancy free and overstated 
If you...

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Categories: calculations, addiction, beautiful, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poet Within
It's hard to think of metaphors
When dealt an accountant's brain,
Confronted with calculations
That must always come out even.

For thirty years with head bowed low,
I struggled with...

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Categories: calculations, on work and working,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member David Must Pay Less Attention In Class
And from the tree of knowledge, a serpent slid into view 
He’d seen it all before, our future he already knew 
Moses on some mountain,...

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Categories: calculations, allegory, allusion, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Infinity Symbol
The enterprise was doomed to irrevocable failure.
He looked at the board and re-examined his formulas.
The astral entities were too complicated for the earthly mind.
The fear...

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Categories: calculations, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Anything Goes
A night’s rest is never enough for the city always calls
A new day is like a page flip from the time a night falls
A breakfast...

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Categories: calculations, adventure, change, dedication, desire,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs