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Math Poems | Examples of Math Poetry

Math Poems - Examples of all types of math poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for math.
Premium Member Peas in a Pod
Poetry and math - two peas in a pod. Why then do you look at me so odd? They’re both to discover and express The simple truth beneath the mess....Read the rest...
Categories: math, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Archimedean Homesick Blues - Apologies to Bob Dylan
To be sung to the tune of Subterranean Homesick Blues. Davy’s in the basement Working on geometry You’ll see my intent A theorem in development Presh is on the website Hit pause, scratch head Trick problem, misled Try another approach instead Look...Read the rest...
Categories: math, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode to the First Octant
Eating my oatmeal, sipping my tea, “Where”, I wondered, “should I stroll today? I won’t be rash and decide in a flash. There are choices to carefully weigh”. “Left/Right, Up/Down, and Forward/Back - There are but three choices...Read the rest...
Categories: age, humor, language, math,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Cicada Rumble - or 1803 plus 13 times 17 equals 2024
It's been a long time since the cicadas rumbled. History books say 'twas eighteen hundred and three When war struck the trees where bees sometimes bumbled. The seventeen and thirteen boys couldn't agree. The horror of those days can't...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, insect, math, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Funny Math
When you find yourself with trouble, Constant worry makes it double. But once you learn how to laugh, Troubles will go down by half....Read the rest...
Categories: humor, math,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Questions and Answers
We answer big questions one by one As scientific progress marches on. When we find an answer, we’re not done. Up spring two new questions to dwell upon! Math then informs us of a sad pitfall. While the...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, irony, math, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pythagorean Theorem Proof
Pull up a chair, and don’t make a move! We’ve got something we really must prove, ‘Bout sides of a right triangle, num’bring three. You’ve somewhere to be? I won’t hear your plea! A plus B, squared,...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, math,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inventory Control
If more is less while less is more How much less than more is in stock at your store ...Read the rest...
Categories: math, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Journey to the Right Brain
Our brains, the experts do opine, Have a left side, a right side, and a dividing line – But that daunting corpus callosum I fear to cross it - there to, here from. I started out upon a path...Read the rest...
Categories: math, poetry, retirement,
Form: Couplet
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. ...Read the rest...
Categories: love, march, math,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member pie is not exactly right
While circular area's moot 3/14 math groupies salute Approximate pi Which helps us get by Since squares within rounds don't compute ...Read the rest...
Categories: cute, march, math,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Full Moon Surfing
My sacred ecologist within re-cognizes Bucky Fuller's pre-millennial insight What appears, from a transcendent distance, to be a static entirely monocultural universal Vertex, A Black circular Whole at New Moon midnight, while circling outside physical Earth nature May also feel like an ecstatic unitarian Vortex from a...Read the rest...
Categories: culture, health, integrity, math,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Not 1 Not 2
An edge A signal of separation Dividing 1 and 2.. Birthing of time And space..and Reinforcing the Edginess of life.. Obvious and assumed A seeming programming To convince and conceal.. Yet a blurring can Appear in a word or a Most ordinary happening Strumming resonance with Not 1..Not 2......Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, friendship, math, rose,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Migrating Culture Change
Perhaps immigration is our big US national anxiety because we don't know how to unilaterally abort cancerous growth of matricide. Too much to even think about at a merely nationalistic level of ecocidal unconsciousness. Earth is our shared sacred home which has...Read the rest...
Categories: math, earth, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Leonardo Of Pisa
(pause) Crunch Words Upon A page 'til Space plays out or thoughts Ideas low, maybe do math Use Leonardo of Pisa called Fibonacci Formula to do a Sanskrit poem in Indian mathematics way, way back ...Read the rest...
Categories: math, poetry,
Form: Fibonacci

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