Math Quatrain Poems

In his gospel, Matthew says you can buy two sparrows for a penny;
but in his gospel, Luke says you can buy five sparrows for two.
So...

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Two wiener dogs and their owners so proud
Approached each other right there on the green.
Then, the hounds commenced at yapping so loud.
But that wasn’t the...

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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...

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If my usual wasn't so ordinary
And didn't span great feats of generic
It may just be shy of extraordinary 
A mediocrity so bland I'm hysteric

Enormity in...

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The direction and pursuit that man endeavors to,
    Follows a complex and convoluted path.
Where the distant future is left in question, and
...

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My child has a love of poetry
It is rare, for she is only nine.
In her bare mind, words are potpourri
floating, rhyming by stanza, by line.

Holding...

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All of a sudden she sought out the sale, 
Math was her new daily study,
Where every new price had its own ratio, 
She now valued...

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A pen tis' stride of mystery,
His search for truth eternity,
Lost in worlds so beyond,
No point of return did all warn'd,

Tread he bravely by this sea,
Forward...

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Well now I've gone and done it again
Another math test was failed by me
If I had a nickel for each one,
I'd have a dollar thirty...

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Contain me not within a verse
A rancorous debate consumes me
Tensions rising feelings terse
Until the writing just resumes

My dear quatrain I write in vain
To make a...

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I learned to add, subtract, multiply and divide,
And always followed the teacher's directions.
  My kids solve complex problems collaboratively,
  And make unshakeable lifetime...

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I know her routine, she told me today, 
I know what lives in her soul,
I know her small quirk, that she thinks of the most,...

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So many things I want to tell you my Dad
But I choke up in tears feeling awfully sad,
I grew-up so fast since the day you...

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Those Irrational numbers used in maths, 
They lead to understanding what's real,
Those numbers rationalise all that we make, 
Like building a perfectly round wheel,

With pi...

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"How easy this maths exam will be,
How simple the maths to be done?"
You understood exactly what the teacher had taught,
Had taught before the test had...

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