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Hypotenuse Poems - Poems about Hypotenuse

Premium MemberProofs

...Proofs!!!

I could never grasp proofs
they were too much for me

How could side-angle-side equal
prove that the hypotenuse squared
plus, the cosine of angle A equal
the square root of Pi?

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Categories: hypotenuse, humorous, math,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSubterranean 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...
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Categories: hypotenuse, math, music,
Form: Rhyme



Math

...Pity the fool who lives by numbers 
He counts his sheep while the sagacious slumbers 
Imagines triangles equal or obtuse 
Then numbers his thoughts by hypotenuse. 

He dreams of trig and long di...
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Categories: hypotenuse, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHuh

... This morning, teacher said this week:
"We'll syntax Shakespeare used critique.
We'll cogitate and cursive write
And elements and odes recite.
We'll nuclei and despots learn.
To Babylon and U...
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Categories: hypotenuse, basketball, confusion, humor, school,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Square On the Hypotenuse

...gift from father beyond cemetery,
bound red book named Euclid's geometry,
father was head teacher of known repute,
but the son's reading skills were less astute.

wrapped in fine velvet it was i...
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Categories: hypotenuse, blessing, christian, funny,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberA 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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Categories: hypotenuse, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTo My High School Math Teacher

...Thank you, Mr. Rogers (yes, his real name!) 
for rescuing me from teenage purgatory.

       Perplexed teenager, lacking social lumen
       pulled C's in English, D's in History -
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Categories: hypotenuse, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Irrefutable and Irreputable

...Numerical value of irreputable in Chaldean Numerology is 3. 
Numerical value of irreputable in Pythagorean Numerology is 1.

In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem, also known as             Pyth...
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Categories: hypotenuse, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Will It Be Dinosaur Foot Tickling Or Chucking Beetroot Around Then

...Are you really going to tickle a dinosaur foot with a stone feather? or throw beetroots?

Who would attend a pterodactyl party? A daisy? A wallflower? A creeping jungle tree vine complete with snak...
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Categories: hypotenuse, arabic, art, assonance, aubade,
Form: I do not know?

A Walnut Is Waltzing With a Willow Tree Today

...a walnut waltzing with a willow tree
A molecule is neither a destitute mop without a bucket house. Nor is it a seven acre field that is very cold due to having no grass. Even the most prepared of gr...
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Categories: hypotenuse, aubade, baseball, basketball, bird,
Form: I do not know?

Playing With the Paint

...pickle a paper and print paint playfully pointing pins
Knitting needles in a fish and chip shop is about as useful or as necessary as eating a soup with a spade. Dramatic are the arriving interludes...
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Categories: hypotenuse, absence, allah, allusion, angel,
Form: I do not know?

Freud Again Horn Haiku

...Freud Again Horn Haiku

Three aspects will fight
In combat with each other
No equality.

Jim Horn

http://www.poetrysoup.com/poets/top_100_poets_most_poems_all_time.aspx

Tangent = Sin/Co S...
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Categories: hypotenuse, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Hypotenuse Cooked My Goose

...A mathematician, I am not
How to figure I forgot.
Forget the hypotenuse,
For it ain’t no use.

Pythagoras, keep your theorem,
For it causes me delirium.
A mere child said he’d explain,
With a...
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Categories: hypotenuse, math,
Form: Quatrain

Deep Low Math

...Deep Low Math


Divide the 1st number by nothing, Undefined,
That’s the meaning of TRUE LOVE,
Even the highest integer in a form of positive,
Cannot explain why this thing is greater than any negativ...
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Categories: hypotenuse, love, math, me, metaphor,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberCircle Gets the Square

...A  is for algebra, where numbers are represented by letters
 B  is for base, a base ten number  system is much better

 C  is for circle, it goes round and round
 D  is for degree, in a circle, 360 a...
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Categories: hypotenuse, science, relationship,
Form: Free verse

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