Short Euclid Poems

I
digits through nine
faith came easy
enter zero - infinity

II
God had to go
God would fill all space
creation is born

III
space is his disguise
like zero, it's No-thing:
No thing, not nothing!

IV
Euclid gave us wins, loss -
Curves have no points
Logic boxes us all

V
Oceanic thinking, now
More needed than ever
yin-yang, not in and out...

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Zero to the thousandth power
logic on the run
Oblongata left in pieces
nothing zero-sum

Squaring the root unto itself
Euclid at the cliff
A equals B as B disappears
the quotient nondescript

Hickory Dickory’s mouse on the run
though nimble Jack gets burned 
Formulas crumbling as integers balk
what’s ‘given’ mocked and spurned

Zero to the thousandth power
reason clones its fear
Classical thought—not selling or bought
Pythagorean tears

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