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Subtraction

Can I teach you about life’s little trick?

The path to Eden doesn’t exist;
It lights up beneath your feet

You don’t preach the light;
you remove the flickering bulb.

You don’t teach what’s real;
you show what isn’t.

You don’t unlock the heart;
you stop guarding the door.

You don’t summon God’s voice;
you stop interrupting it

You don’t find the answers;
you stop asking the

Categories: subtraction, growth,
Form: I do not know?

LOVE ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION

Sometimes I think if we had paid better attention to basic math 
it would be easier to follow our hearts….
and the Earth would be one whole…
instead of broken into parts.

I imagine in elementary school we could not contemplate
the importance of basic math in terms of love and hate.

Even now I have to wonder: as to

Categories: subtraction, love,
Form: Rhyme

Knowing Nothing

My Math Teacher said:
I know how to teach you about 1
but can't guide you into comprehending None--0

A more sacredly co-arising binomial relationship,
less traveled bipartisan path
to know Zero rises positive toward full future
and suppresses negative
degenerating back
reversing toward empty non-numeric past.

In any not qualitative
and non-quantitative way
that would leave you
or anyone else
with a final co-binary qual-quantity
healthy quark space

Categories: subtraction, earth, education, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

100 Plus Math Subtraction and Gaining Stream Nine Nine Nine

100 
( + ) 
Plus

&

Gaining Steam
Collecting Stream's

Quite a while after
Initial Posting
Critical Editing

Something incessantly Clicked

Machinations Tripped 

And now

It is what it is

And was meant to say

In the very beginning

100
Minus
( 1 )

Call 
999

H
E       (  S . O . S )
L
P

101
Poetry

Is there anybody out there

Who can relate or exactly knows and

Categories: subtraction, slam,
Form: Free verse

Subtraction Man

He used to be three dimensional
and then he became two
I know it seems far fetched 
But I’m telling you it’s true

In two dimensions
he could still depict three
If people didn’t look to closely
They’d believe what they’d see

His paper thin personality 
once colourful and cool
Gradually became faded
no longer able to fool

Winds of change kept blowing
Two dimensions turned

Categories: subtraction, farewell, humor, symbolism,
Form: Quatrain

Subtraction

Subtraction

If you subtract your bad self, 
In every way, every part as best you can,
Then you’ll find better health,  
And other people won’t suffer a ban. 

You will add something onto, 
Your character if you resolutely control, 
Your ego, there’ll be binary two, 
As a friendship bond will fill your bowl.

Fractions are always negative,

Categories: subtraction, change, character, courage, friendship,
Form: Quatrain

Subtraction

Nature can be expressed in terms of math
'Tis full of quantities and relations
Bounded by the law of interactions
Endpoint implies our dream; segment, our path
There are as many symbols that replace
As there are things in this wonderful place

A plus signifies accumulation
Of things we desire and of friends we need
Constancy of amount of which will lead
To a

Categories: subtraction, friendship, loss, universe,
Form: Rhyme

Subtraction

It's a little bit like heaven
when you leave and don't come back.
you're that little bit of leaven
and you push me off the track
break the rhythm of my breathing,
slam the doors across my mind
I anticipate your leaving
don't leave anything behind

  Here's your petty peeves and worries
here's your chicken and your egg,
here's your foolish fancy flurries
and

Categories: subtraction, life, me,
Form: Couplet