Short Parabola Poems

arc - parabola
life - our parabolic bow 
ends that never meet...

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burnished band expands
parabola descending
blighting gray shutters...

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Anybody can consider this statement as moot:
Negative real numbers cannot have a square root.
When working with real numbers with values less than zero,
the squared product will be positive; so where do you go?
In a parabola, all points except zero lie above the x-axis.
Many students get confused because of this.
This placed mathematicians in a bit of a quandary.
That was until numbers were invented that are imaginary.
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Here I have something not all of you may know.
It is a mnemonic of the rainbow.
Here are colors of the visible spectrum.
The sun’s rays coming in a continuum.
This is the light shining during the day.
Throughout time, it has been coming our way.

There is red, orange, green, and indigo
as well as, blue, violet, and yellow.
After a rain, we see a parabola.
This is a colorful phenomena.
It is part of nature’s ongoing show.
We’ve witnessed them for as long as we know....

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Loyal… I saw and built the ground
For Journeymen walk the pillars round
A Maypole covered where played the clown
Ring Master stays… and the Rings are sound.
Elegant bows on the trunks of the proud…
Removed for the show and thrown outside
and there in the street a rose petal strides…
Making sweet beats right before our eyes.

”... the Jesus spoke in Parabola
and Parabolic I so told ya…
It’s a reflection of proportion
and a distortion of the Parable.
How dare.able. are we? ...” ;)~...

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