Triangles of poetry
Right angles of artistry
Identities of Phytagorea
Great works of Hipparchus from Nicaea
On sizes and distances
New star of 850, dances
Orbiting the poetic world
Marvelled models of astronomy oggled
Each work in all of poetic equations
Tangent, cosine and cosecant
Reversed in sine, cotangent and secant
Your trigonometric formulae in poetic expressions
I have fun with the world of geometry
The square, the rectangle and the parallelogram
Oh' the trapezoid and the rhombus
The triangles, the isosceles and the equilateral
All are a great happy family together
The circles and ellipses are closely related
The formulas of geometry try to memorize
The areas and circumferences
The diagonals and angles
Learn the trigonometric functions
You discover a new world
The sines and cosines
The tangents and arc tangents
If all this is not enough to entice you
Hopefully and much soon you probably
will fall in love with world of geometry
I have fun with the world of geometry
The square, the rectangle and the parallelogram
Oh' the trapezoid and the rhombus
The triangles, the isosceles and the equilateral
All are a great tight family together
The circles and ellipses are closely related
The formulas of geometry try to memorize
The areas and circumferences
The diagonals and angles
For the trigonometric functions
You discover a new world
The sines and cosines
The tangents and arc tangents
If all this is not enough to entice you
Most probably now you fell in love with geometry
My pencil's lead taps the paper,
My mind confused and in a mess,
It seems I'm searching for an answer,
That basic math, will not assess,
No! This is calc. Trigonometric function,
Yet my mind beckons sociology,
Perhaps the answer lays in psych,
Or even logistics possibly,
The question, What is the sin(x)?
Has an annunciation that leaves me bewildered,
It seems my mind has wondered off,
Because a text was just delivered,
From my ex, nontheless,
A man with the power to misconstrue,
All the principles of math,
And gravitational laws that apply to you,
What is the sign of ex?, (sin(x))
Well my ex is but a man,
So when x is one, it seems there is none,
For the answer is merely zero, Zero, I scribble with my hand,
Generally speaking the sin(x) is y,
I wonder why he didn't call back,
The sign from my ex that did perplex,
Was why he couldn't say goodbye.
To be continued...
just the same ring
with a round of row zees
awash manicured lawns
with generic grass seed
that doth spring
to life with synthesized,
(yet deadly) chemicals meant
to guarantee wrest
ting control might and subdue
so nature forced
to become nsync from in vest
ment plot purchase
as proving grounds to test
a money bagged well paid
laborer at leisure time
sprawled asleep in comfy hammock
a much needed self deserved rest
whereat successful proof
evinces "American dream"
no matter quest
necessitates becoming linkedin
with fast paced lifestyle
attendant ulcer inducing "pest"
keeping up appearances,
where younglings nest
scolding woe begotten kith
if flawless grounds get messed
by clod hopping kids and/or smart pets
upsetting calculus figuring formula
determining trigonometric
landscaping tangential
to maintaining perfectly
squared off turf especially lest
the neighbors cease becoming hospitable
and stop offering gold plated invitations
to such honorable humble guest.
when you see tragedy
man wedding another man
do not laugh or get angry
when you hear comedy
girl wedding another girl
do not laugh or get angry
May be its an inverse growth
trigonometric error it could be
it’s probably evolution symptom
humanity has made voyages
explored the cosmic world
little or nothing is not known
now the rising boredom
with the ordinary things
the ordinariness of sex life
drives humanity to venture
in areas ring-fenced as taboo
though there no neutrality
between evil and good
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