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The Calculus Poems - Poems about The Calculus

Premium Member Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
...Tell me, my friend, does infinity not unsettle your reason, or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless? Look beyond the rust of your disbelief— this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you im......

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Categories: the calculus, beauty, christian, easter, faith,
Form: Lyric
Scotch Tape Sweepstakes
...Scotch Tape Sweepstakes The easy to handle sticky sided material made of a variety of materials, including cellulose acetate, polypropylene, PVC, and adhesive (alluded to in the title) appli......

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Categories: the calculus, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Steampunk
...In the copper-clad cradle of time where gears whir fugues to forgotten dreams..... the fog—a somnolent specter—drifts..... veiling the calculus of progress a manuscript etched by steam and soot. ......

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Categories: the calculus, literature, mythology, technology, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Algorhythms
...The natives are restless They’re storming the gates The jury is back: All wretched ingrates! The votes have been cast, The dice have been thrown. The calculus broken, They’re starting to moan.......

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Categories: the calculus, how i feel, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Black Cats
...See the black cat run, jump, slink away, a shadow within shadows and a life force of mystery. A predator in composite, a compact killer, a butcher for life, the apex of its design, all built of littl......

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Categories: the calculus, adventure, allegory, allusion, angel,
Form: Free verse



Don'T Go Beyond the Ocean, Part Ii
......“There they found a small Evenki village, settled down there, took the women as wives, True Man thought they would live there quietly, but very soon a strange fact they did find… “It seemed ......

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Categories: the calculus, america, conflict, dark, future,
Form: Epic
Ice Ages Come
...Ice Ages Come With Colder Days By February March moves on to centuries Still the sky comes laden with atmospheric vapor As light as ice, clouds abundance falls to the ground As thaw fails to gath......

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Categories: the calculus, appreciation, bird, environment, snow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Covid Cashier
...Quiet, dawn, Covid. Biggest accomplishment yesterday: buying toilet paper. Thanking the young cashier for doing her job. Feeling a little sick, wearing my mask and gloves, Spring oblivious to the......

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Categories: the calculus, fear, nature, poetry, smile,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Teach Me
...Wooden half-desk folded down into place Textbook open, pencil poised Einstein poster on the wall observing Equations flying across the blackboard Cumulonimbus clouds of chalk dust Float across ......

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Categories: the calculus, first love, love, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Goodbye, Common Sense
...They examined all the science that they possibly could and gathered the smartest people the world had to offer. They checked the calculus and geometrics of every single angle. ......

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Categories: the calculus, history, technology,
Form: Free verse
Parachutist
...Once upon a time but not right now or ever A parachutist climbed the short oak tree On private property not yours or mine The sign read, “Trespassers will be shot on sight” (sight unseen) Our......

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Categories: the calculus, conflict, confusion, image, leaving,
Form: Free verse
On Monmouth's Fields, Part Ii
......He reformed the routing patriots, formed a line atop a rise, Perrine’s Hill, brought in General Knox and the artillery, commanding the mass through sheer force of will. He needed to buy time......

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Categories: the calculus, america, conflict, confusion, england,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes On the Sensate Slip Stream : the Silent War In 3 Acts: Pt2
... “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip Stream : The Silent War in 3 Act......

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Categories: the calculus, bible, bird, evil, god,
Form: Free verse
Just Shy O the Concupiscent Cusp
...As par and parcel of being alive wire impossible aye to maintain totally tubularly literarily celibate by and bye with parochial restraint antiseptic dry as dust poetic refrains a......

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Categories: the calculus, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Morsel of Biomass
...Negligible morsel of biomass my fat belly, formerly abs insignificant yet it occupies me hourly while bored or hungry. Fat is what? a picture of despair, giving up caring or man out of balanc......

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Categories: the calculus, care, fear, home, memory,
Form: Free verse

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