Math Poems

A clover’s lucky leaf,
in Contract Bridge a table,
ia playgroup of two couples, usually of opposite gender
with riches an auspicious fold,
second in a power series based on two,
the sum of non-opposable digits on a hand,
in religion one past trinity
and half the...Read More

You returned sooner than we expected and you were never sluggish
Same Mike we knew but these episodes kept happening
I remember one day you told us strongly that you were going to be fine
You said you had superpowers, your cells were...Read More

                          I
Listen up and I'll tell you a truth shall I
about truly who is to...Read More

Sometimes I sit and wonder: 
Would our world be on a better path
if in elementary school we paid more attention
to the lessons we learned in math.

I imagine back then we didn’t understand
how those lessons would relate
as we grew a little...Read More

Unlike the number one which stands as one straight line,
the number I am thinking of supports three other lines on top of it,
and these three other lines are also straight.
We see no curving lines like which appear in numbers
zero, two,...Read More

a riddle in verse

   What is the number of years
   Israel roamed the wilderness
   if we divide it by ten?

   What is the number of ears
   on a duo of...Read More

Most people will assume a girl can cook,
but men can make great chefs, while there are girls
who never at a cookbook took a look!
And some won’t wear a dress or fancy pearls.

We look at men and think ones super tall
are...Read More

A Wooden Riddle

I walk through walls, 
but I'm not dead. 
(as they are unfinished) 
I try to keep the plans, 
locked in my head. 
From the morning I wake up, 
until the time I hit the bed. 

Sheetrock, 
green board,...Read More

Found in Math they’ll try to confuse you, throw you off and then amuse you,
When the end is met and you’ve made a mistake; you simple go back and let it flow right.
They’ll send you backwards instead of forwards, make...Read More

Bridge requires a square table
With a player on each side.
Exchange your greenback dollars
For slot machine quarters to provide.

A basketball team that hoops it up well
May make March Madness semis for a spell.
Pro golfers hit the greens in two pairs
Driving and...Read More

What is that state,
of having no law, 
Oh yeah! they call it,
Anarchy. 

Add in the mindset,
of having no belief, 
That’s right, get, 
Nihilistically. 

Multiply by ten,
only you exist, 
A bit tricky 
Solipsistically. 

Right gonna divide,
just by two,
Where’s this going,
Narcissistically. 

Almost...Read More

Walking along the path to school
Wondering how others thought of her, 
whether good or ill.

Oh, she wanted to be thought smart in math.
But no~ for her 'twas a blood bath!
Well, perhaps I'll be witty,said she.
Everyone likes a laugh.

Ah, dearest lass!
They...Read More

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 coldly reductive conclusions
calculated assuming cause v effect linear formulas
more than feedback loops
of complex neurological relationships,
ecological analogical...Read More

What is Beauty? Is it Truth? Is it Art?
Or the mean of the Golden Ratio?
Whatsoe'er beauty is, it does not show
in the vain and ugly, but in the heart
of them where love and charity take part;
it manifests in the wise,...Read More

She was a powerful giraffe, all proud and tall 
I saw her strength, and I stood in awe
Her height was noticeable even before I noticed
She was eating a cloud with her right jaw.

Sure, he said, staring into my eyes.
He did...Read More

Quiet!
Quotients
Quiz. . .

               ~Quantophrenia!

Quiet!
Quiz—
Quantify
Quotients. . .

               ~Question!

Quest :)

    ...Read More

What if I never learned to put words to paper 
or if my mind never taught itself to unwrap a fantasy 
What if math was the only textbook on earth 
and calligraphy never existed, nor rhyming words 
What if I...Read More

I wonder why
this perennial topic of death
does not interest me

Even my own
evokes cold detachment
rather than invoking warm 
heated attachment to denial
anger
disappointment
body betrayal.

Death cast in dull shadow
by my fascination with my own mortal
double-boundaried life

Which came from lives
not mine
and returns,
fades
disperses? perhaps,
explodes?
implodes?
re-unmembers
this individuated...Read More

The oldest question there is...why are we here?
Some will look to God...and rely solely on prayer.
Reality is perception...we find what we seek.
There are two types of people in this world...the strong and the weak.

The weak will always follow...the strong will...Read More

I hope to redeem myself by being nicer to me
in this new year
I was not kind last year, or the year before,
angry with my body for failing me
Taking no blame
This year I am smarter, wiser, an owl really.

I will take...Read More

he is a god
given hap
piness in
my life

before 
he could
even speak
english he told

me his very
first German
joke and where
he learned German

is beyond
me and i must
say he is in no
way part of my

gene puddle
deep and or from 
the shallow end but 
enough said...Read More

Tally marks, bar graphs, pie charts too
Mathematic formulas make me blue
Geometry turns my purple blood cold
The new math makes me feel truly old

Arithmetic word problems are my forte’
When I read them, I say this is okay.
X minus Y may indeed...Read More

There are five likely females                  
(not counting the barmaid),
plus a few calculating men.
There are others,
dead-eyed drinkers
and such, who don’t count.

Time to figure odds.
The...Read More

Is science the killer 
of intuition

Can feelings so easily
be dispelled

The numbers unchained,
math murder proclaimed

Our souls and our spirits
—to quell

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020) 
...Read More

Rewind
By Julia Shaw

At seventy-two my life has been so very fine,
That I'd like to push a button and just rewind.
I'd go back to my wedding day so exciting
And marry again the man I found so inviting.
He's been all things to...Read More