You claim to hate math, but you love division;
Subtracting peace with every calculated decision.
You multiply chaos like it's long addition;
And solve for drama with precise precision.
You divide the bond that once made us whole;
Splitting unity just to satisfy your greedy soul.
You can’t balance love if conflict is the lenses you see your vision.
You’ll never find truth in division, till you divide your own illusion.
A HAIKU MATH QUARTET
(Poetic Math)
1.
A Haiku math thought:
Cubing three will equal to
___________ plus _______.
2.
Squaring six plus six,
And subtracting five plus five,
Equals _________________.
3.
Divide one thousand
By one thousand, and you
Get ______ less than _____.
4.
Math can be easy,
But thinking is still required;
I think I am ___________
Chanukah lights grow by one
each and every night
And yet, no disguising that
the holiday slips away
quick as a cat
Six lights, seven, eight!
The menorah’s looking great! …
Come Day Number Nine
it’s back to our same old fate ...
Way back when, the school of Shammai
started Chanukah with eight lights
each night subtracting one*
Easing us back into winter’s long night
_____________________________________________________
*Over 2,000 years ago, Shammai's yeshiva argued
with Hillel's over how to celebrate Chanukah. Hil-
lel's yeshiva won: One additional candle each night.
And that became the law right down to today... As
for me, I would have it the other way. Oh, well...
Math of life
Math for life
Life you make
Life you bake
Bake and decorate
Bake and percolate
Percolate to breathe
Percolate to wreathe
Wreathe what pleases
Wreathe not teases
Teases that brands
Teases of strands
Strands in slumbers
Strands in numbers
Numbers you count
Numbers not discount
Discount what beguiles
Discount what defiles
Defiles of adding
Defiles of subtracting
Subtracting what multiplies
Subtracting what amplifies
Amplifies what cares
Amplifies what shares
Shares of joy
Shares of toy
Toy that inspires
Toy never expires
Expires like remission
Expires like division
Division of labor
Division of glamour
Glamour of you
Glamour in you
You are beautiful
You are honest
Honest in naughtiness
Honest to goodness
Goodness in Math
Goodness in path
Path to Wonderland
Path in Neverland
Neverland of magic
Neverland so hypnotic
Hypnotic in loving
Hypnotic and caring
Caring with less
Caring and penniless
Math of penniless
More or less
The worlds a globe..' that goes around.'
Globilization 'the ideaology' is only newly
Found, it merely iterates what has always been.' subtracting intelligent anyalisis
To proffer but illusory dreams.'
chandeliers hung by dead feathers
cannon balls of years when time hated fairly
left over promises i'm not friends with
getting lept out
hanging death
to find a friend
running away
marrying the wash out
battling for empty
filling up the old crimes
inside my healing head
to destroy their evidence
useless when its good
too ugly for views
prisons too important
for me, the left overs
i was the addiction
now another contraception
hailing ghosts
tangled in timecards
under hung
and still voting
to take my spots
Haversack hopes bring bitter crack
Next to nothing is brought back
Recalled promises all are lacking
Adding nothing but subtracting
Public messages are attacking
Better dreams start retracting
The finish line is protracting
People gather and start reacting
“Tom, You Shouldn’t Be Here”
New Years Day 2017
Miracle Man
10/2/2024
At birth God assigned me
an unknown expiration date.
God has seen fit to bless me
with my date coming late.
But an inaudible clock is busy
deducting from my earthly time.
Subtracting each earthly second
God has allotted for my lifetime.
I’ve faced serious hurdles
that Doctors said were my end.
But only God knows the reason
He chose my time to extend.
Frass the math..A help to agri.? A culture to far.' I
Ain't having any.. ( B S ) would be better than this '
Real hell for leather.' How can you plan to help
Organical food.? With insect dung..This is so rude.!
To offer false help, while subtracting physicallity.?
The good wholesome animals, this is real insanity
From white priveliged people it seems to me? klaus scoros
clinton
bush, charles windsor biden; welby. are they out of their trees.?
Do they push the world, out on a limb? As axe
To tree roots they madly swing, it seems all airy fairy
And cowless dairys.? Sacrifice and wanton felony?
Penury to live ' hard yoke tough yakka.' They'll get
Us all crook, while speiling some patter, acid rain
Are the tears they shed, they would run a world
With most people dead.? A fast hard slap is what
Is needed..' to get such a hysterical; ethos un-seated.'
Those sum of things they just add up! Subtracting them they become missing?
8/1/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. © 2021
My mind I caught
tangled in resentments
dissatisfied in anguish
and regrets
subtracting
what I had given
from received
mulled on revenge
for the loss
two straight I's
bodyguards of frown
livid lips
stretching face
down
darkness in eyes
fists clenched tight
that I deserved more
the verdict out.
Looking at the mirror
gasped in fright
if I was to die now
I'm always right
not even the devil
would want me
liar!
Second Place Winner: William Kekaula-Final 2021 N-A Choice3
Sums are far
Some are near
Distances
Just doesn't add up
Subtracting sums trust
12/22/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2020
If I have not
Not I have if nothing gain
In addition to subtracting
Leaving less leaving nothing else again stil
10/20/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020
Remaining paths on the red vermilion
Seeks remedy of imprisoned life zone
Digging out the final residual den for breath
Washes the paths of rest life warning fate
Yet cloudy summer sky starting plough hopes
Will back all joyful times with relative crops
We are all together without anyone lacking
Will return to souvenir field subtracting nCoV-19
23.04.2020 (Chattogram City)
What I got is what you need
What I got is special indeed
What I got you will fiend
There’s no need to wean
Stay true in what you believe
Your heart is forbidden
Kicked with a spice of resentment
Only sparks of joy makes you smile
A group of words could not describe you better
Knowing what is real is still determined
Determined by adding and subtracting your inventory
Your space and inventory is crowed with takeout Lunch
Why take out Lunch when you can dine in with candles and red wine?
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