There is a growing tendency to treat science and in particular mathematics as a relgion. Well we can't write poems with mathematics but we can make maths serve poetry
6 Squared
She vows to love me if...
I will love her without
Condition but cannot
Change, become someone else,
Something I am not, just
So that she may love me
A few years ago the UK Poetry Society announced they were looking to get involved in projects in which people were creating poems based on the way computers interact with people. The idea is arse dribble of course, computers do not interact with people simply because computers have no knowledge of who is operating them or why. Humans interact with each other through computers in the same way as we do through books, televisions or telephones.
I decided to do some poems based on mathematical principles. This is six squared, six lines of six syllables per line. A more ambitious project is Ten cubed, ten ten-line stanzas of ten syllables per line. It is finished but I lost it (temporarily I'm sure.)
Never was one for mathmatical equations but these kind of numbers I can do! :)
"Six Squared" by Ian Thorpe
I'm up for the challenge
New mathmatical course!
No fingers, no more toes
Counting my syllables
"Six Squared" poetry flows!
The lollipop happiness of dime-store love gets in its lick..."just So that she may love me" annuls individual loneliness...at times, love has its vain moments...I like the concept in linear heart-line thinking of the mathematical principal Six Squared, Ian...be well...Blessed Be.
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th
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"Six Squared" by Ian Thorpe
I'm up for the challenge
New mathmatical course!
No fingers, no more toes
Counting my syllables
"Six Squared" poetry flows!
!This is fun!
Love and Peace~
Kimmy~
Just to interact...on your pack
Oh No lost it...hope you find your ten pack before I get my sixpack.....lol!!
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Sage