Best Integers Poems

Fifty stars
and
thirteen stripes
Wavy patriotic mathematician
do the math ... 
Subtraction or addition,
what will the numbers be,
37 or 63?
Slavery took away my parents’ human rights,
and their children’s dignity
I got 59 stripes to show 
	what was done to me ...
every year on this earth,
	I’ve seen my people mistreated...

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** Devotion Poem, VANTAGE POINTS **
(For Jim. #17 in Devotion Poem Series)

“I’m not a romantic,”
   you announced at the very beginning
With a side-flick of your hand
As if you might then stand
To exit…taking along your trail
Of cool colors — the blues and greens —
Too...

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Oh my math! Oh my math!
You are a head ache or clear cache,
I don’t understand you till I solve, 
Is it a part of my problem solve?

Oh dear math! Oh dear math!
Please be simple, don’t be so tough,
You want me to practice, doing some rough?
It’s...

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Integers are whole numbers that can be positive.
In contrast, their values can also be negative.

On the x-axis, natural numbers are to the right of the zero.
On the vertical y-axis, they are above the zero as far as they can go.

You may think this question is...

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I hope this concept is familiar to you.
I’m sure you are acquainted with “absolute value”.
Points lie in the plane left of the y-axis.
Integers can have negative values because of this.
There’s nothing difficult here; it’s quite simple.
Rene Descartes introduced us to this principle.
In minus territory is...

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Put one, before, nine numbers of zero,
and take one off, have nine numbers of nine.
Grows a number ten times, zero, the hero. 
Put one, before, nine numbers of zero.
Centre of integers, is the number zero,
to the left and right, may go endless, fine. 
Put one,...

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THE CLICHE SUBJECT MATTER
I tried to study you best way I could without weighing my infatuation
And before I knew it I was knee deep in a classless obsession
I added you to my thinking pattern, all your small numbers multiplying themselves
In my head I became a...

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Why do questions hope to end with answers
while answers seem to never end 
without yet more questions?

As a case in point...

How are the Case Studies of economic and political history
different than Einstein's Thought Experiments?

Wait a minute...

Yes, well that's not really a difference, I think.
Thought Experiments...

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A great and Devine recipe
Alas He brew one day
The Gospel worked great wonders
Precious blood did make a way.

Hebrew vessels, chosen jewels
Their descendants were the prick
That Paul before conversion
Against the same did kick.

Many calculated numbers
Of ingredients he mixed
Negatives and positives
A spiritual arithmetic.

Unknown integers he added
On his...

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How 'Bout Stoichiometry For A Conversational Hook?

Nary a clue exists about
     the relationship between
relative quantities of substances
     taking part in a clean
(non GMO contaminated) 
     gluten free reaction,
     or...

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There has always been an inter-outer over-under tender balance of loveless socio-equations as they super fit the psychosocial sexe-endices in this modern garner of pluses/minuses/bytes and scribbles mostly incommunicado inexperience and parental impreciseness as to, "anything planned", which in tomb leaves us doth a deranged...

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Natural numbers, big or small
Include no zero among them all
Including numbers 123
Excluding fractions, as you can see

Whole numbers are one step up
Add a zero, and add them up
To get a simple 0 1 2
There is almost nothing new

Integers now are number three
As negative as numbers...

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Numbers Subtract At Dawn
                       (4 & 6 Take Sides)

Number 4 and 6 are safe for the moment basking in their wholeness
In a sun,...

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One day a placid platypus was playing in a kitchen. He had discovered that there was often much to sort and much to sort was often much fun. Other platypuses did not realise how much can be gleaned from the gleam of a pan after...

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The Guardians of the Light
David J Walker

What is it,
This thing that parts 
The natural darkness
In the eternal night

The strike of potassium and
Phosphorous, igniting 
The only light 
The only bright thing ever  known 
In this unknown universe

Parting the darkness from the light
As if parting the...

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