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Below are the all-time best Math poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of math poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member To My High School Math Teacher
Thank you, Mr. Rogers (yes, his real name!) 
for rescuing me from teenage purgatory.

       Perplexed teenager, lacking social lumen
...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: math, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Math
Why do we need math?
Because it puts us on a narrow path.
Even though it sometimes makes you swell up in wrath.
To most,
Math just causes you...

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Categories: math, school,
Form: Rhyme
I Didn'T Do My Math Homework
I didn’t do my math homework!
I watched T.V instead!
I better come up with an excuse... and quick!
Or else I’m surely dead!

My brother tore it!
It’s in...

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© Jacob Cra  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: math, childhood, education, children, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Do the Math
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...

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Categories: america, history, math, truth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Complex Math of Living
The Complex Math of Living
By Franklin Price
4/3/2015

The complex math of living
In this 21st Century
Is all about the numbers
Don't add up for you and me

Billions of...

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Categories: math, corruption, hope, life, money,
Form: Rhyme
Just Some Highschool Math Problem
i am a possibility
of many possibilities
i am a ratio
an indecisive factor
in the rest of what this dimension has to offer

the world is a top
i spin...

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© Val Murah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: math, angst, art, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Endless Love
Infinite Loves Pi
Circling souls, forever one,
Decimal twirls, a spiral kiss
Endless loop, hearts entwined
Burning bright, love's endless climb. 
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Categories: love, march, math,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Mathematics
Mental stretching, the required sacrifice
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
To all exercises, these four are the basics
Hell on paper but sweet in its understanding
Equations and formula,...

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Categories: education, life, math,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Probabilities
Probabilities

fallen fruit exists
earthen harvest and ground meet
jars in the pantry

Robert J. Lindley ,07-24-2014...

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Categories: creation, earth, life, math,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Often went out of his way
To explain helio-philosophy
In return he was accused of heresy. 

 
- - - - - - - - -...

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Categories: math, philosophy,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Too Square For Two
you ... are the paramour of right angles
the square of a square - complete, quite aware
how two must adore you
for all it sees is itself,...

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Categories: appreciation, math,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Met-A-Four
“Met-a-Four”


I “met a four”
when I was three
and oh the things
it did to me
and fingers counting
one-two- three.
When the four
brought in a five
all my counting fingers
came alive.
Reaching...

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Categories: children, math, nonsense,
Form: Light Verse
Just Doesn'T Add Up
Pythagoras once fell off a ladder
And landed on a venomous adder
This adder couldn't add
Calculus made it sad
Algebra and theorems made it madder....

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Categories: funny, math, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Invention of Zero
Zero.
By which nothing is divided.
No zero
no negative
no opposite
no hope
no Adam, no apple, no marriage, no morning.
No mirror
no knowledge
no God, no soul, no ear lobe, no...

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Categories: math, father, future, home, hope,
Form: Verse
Make It Count
line count and word number are equal in this selection....

"Make It Count"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

A
Man may
Come to play
But if you say
Oh no baby, not...

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Categories: math, art, education, encouraging, life,
Form: Monorhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things