Math Poems | Examples of Math Poetry

Two of our dearest friends offered a gift to my wife and me. My wife immediately consented Without question to the opportunity to go on an All expenses paid cruise. I immediately said "No" With my head but could not find the heart within me To say anything but "Yes". Our friends had gone on 29 cruises and...

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Chronos~w A new poetry form mathematically based on pi squared Lasingerland, the Netherlands, by Bianca and Alexa shared It gives off a limerick vibe which is the only form that I can describe to which it can be compared PoetrySoup Community I’m happy to be a lifetime member of PoetrySoup and am willing to encourage any new recruit Yes it’s true that there’s...

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five's were easy five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty the nine’s should have been easy too but they are not as jazzy to sing 18, 27, 36, 45 awkward melody...

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If ever your color's blue I will do something for you Simple math's my speciality Sit back, watch, and you will see All your joys I'll times by two All of them, not just a few The sad things I will take away No more to see the light of day Come close and whisper in my ear Tell me...

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A traveler in ancient Greece traversed a broad town square. A bottle of mead was waiting there. He considered the flight of geese, and those brimming honey-wine kegs. He was, at first, at quite at a loss, until, he thought, "I'll go straight across, avoiding the triangle legs". How far did go on the path not bent? Our traveling friend (Pythagorus) invented something for...

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We must be fastidious and particular, our sidewalks, strictly perpendicular - and we must sternly ask, who would be so crass as to cut across our new mown grass. This despicable heathen can't be one of us. He can only be Pythugorus....

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If the world was run by John Conway, or our young friend, Terrence Tao, things would run smooth and efficiently, and this is most provably how - with the Sieve of Eratosthenes, it could be done. Boys and girls would have so much fun. and every boat and sailing ship would glide upon a Mobius strip, costing but...

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Monotheism's greyscale God is a monochromatic antithesis of polytheism's gay full-color Gaian Hypothesis. A radiant monotheistic SunGod is the 1 numerator antithesis of a polytheistic non-0 denominator's rain-bowed Gaian Hypothesis. Orthodox yang monotheism is the often lonely at the top antithesis of ortho-practiced yintegrally compassionate pleasured polytheism. Testosterone glowing linear erections are the Male antithesis of estrogen flowing round anticipations joying enjoying enjoining FeMale prothesis. A transcendently nominative FatherSun is the monotheistic spiritually voiced antithesis of...

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Sixteen sailors strode into a pub, Then a group of them left to get some grub. Those who remained got into a fight, With some locals who drank there every night. Although the sailors did outnumber, The locals (who were also dumber) Two sailors shy of a ratio of two-to-one, They (the sailors) had lost and the locals had won. But then exactly...

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Raise e to the power of i Then multiply i by a pi. To all that, add one, You'll see when you're done, A zero will out of it fly....

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The digits of pi are a squiggle That never will cease but to wiggle. It won't stay in place, No pattern will trace, It has a continuous giggle....

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You see her in all the geometry joints. She has six edges and four points. I wish I could have her back so near - the tetrahedron I hold dear....

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I cement my seriousness with warm resolve I have sixteen horrible math problems tonight to solve If anyone despises mathematics, it is certainly I. Every math problem except a word problem makes me cry....

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There is a shadow moving in the street Hanging over the people you meet It has no hands elbow or knees but but it is moving swiftly in the air and it is causing the people to fear a warm energy is bursting out of the sun and the people are flocking the beaches to absorbing the strange heat, they...

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Listen! This sentence's period - that's me. I'll just move one inch to my right, you see. ------>. Now, I trace a one-inch segment of a line. It's my one-dimensional redesign. Watch me trace my line segment down from there, producing what some folks might call a...

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