Short Trigonometry Poems

There is no excuse to be sad
   only reason to be glad

That one can write fine poetry
   without resort to trigonometry...

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Pi
What statistics?
What trigonometry?
Geometry bamboozles me
The math language completely shuts me down.
Pre-algebra breaks my brain waves.
Please let’s not speak of these
Crazy math terms.
Pi...

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Arboreal chum noodle trunk gesticulating 
Male pattern baldness syndrome squiggles 
Trigonometry Palisades uneven ripple

Framework salmon people 
Rise evangelical steeple 
Pigmentation feeble 

Hillock molehills 
Hedgerow backyards 
Autumnal equinox...

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Multitude of numbers,
  Multiply, add, divide,
    Minus, percentage, graphs,
      Metres, centimetres,
        More trigonometry,
          Merge with geometry,
   Magic of solving sums.


10.02.2020


For Joseph May's "Pleiades" poetry contest...

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Two parellel lines began
somehow
and traveled together 
for quite some distance
until one veered off
from the other.

And this was really a sad thing
since they were supposed 
to have gone on into infinity.

What kind of geometry
did the line have in mind?

Perhaps
it dreamed of shapes
filling space excitingly.

Or perhaps
it learned of some
beautiful trigonometry...

I think maybe
it just longed 
for a change of perspective....

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Trigo
Trigonometry.
Angle repeated to infinity.
Triangulate an epic sine.
I've far too often crossed a line.
A line that lies on the hypotenuse.
And whisks its way into my muse.
That tangent is frequently opposite.
The place where wearily I sit.
And dreams of triangles fill my head.
Yet spherical lobotomies fill me with dread.
I cannot understand these simple theories.
Perhaps because they are portrayed as dreary.
Trigonometry
Trigo
Trigonumeracy....

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