Sugar-free Red BullAlgebra sheet limp beneath my elbow,
mocking me in equations I’ll never understand.
I open Google Classroom like a coffin.
The deadlines stack up
in a mound of unmarked corpses,
in a thousand unmarked graves,
in old, unmarked sections of my mind—
I'd name them here, but who cares?
I’m too tired to mourn them.
Sugar-free Red Bull—
because I don't sleep,
because I care more...
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Categories:
dark, food, math, mental
Form: Free verse
Discontented MindsCould discontentment be a vice?
To be a farmer would suffice -
yet, born upon this earthly sphere,
a boy in County Lincolnshire
was left by farming, cold as ice.
Not content to sow and harvest grain,
He sought to understand and explain,
inventing calculus he showed
how nature's secrets he'd decode
with his unsated, searching brain.
As Newton revealed the...
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Categories:
environment, math, motivation, science,
Form: Rhyme
matt hem a tickle
Categories:
addiction, math,
Form: Free verse
A MATH LESSON OF NATURE
Categories:
math, allegory, extended metaphor, high
Form: Haiku
SupercalifragilisticexpialidociousExtraordinary people hide,
The beauty they most treasure inside,
Instead, they pay attention around,
To a wonderful world rich with sound.
Hide and seek can be fun for awhile,
Inside the mind, magicians beguile,
Around the world challenges the brain,
Sound manifests around us like rain.
Great, good, most always misunderstood....
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Categories:
math, angst, appreciation, beauty, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
AnglesIf only angles could be calculated by degrees of truth,
Counted along perpendicularities measured by parallel reasons.
If only spheres were round,
Found amongst the globes hovering in the heavens we've named Space.
Circling nuclei like electrons to an atom, orbiting thoughtlessly around a point that never proved itself.
Heat and light suffice reason, it seems.
To be and hither thither,...
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Categories:
math, america, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Just Doing the MathIf each US citizen was required to take full responsibility for the financial mismanagement of our former elected leadership, each American would owe approximately:
$36.2 trillion (US Dept 2025) / 346 million (current US population)
EQUALS
ONE MILLION DOLLARS EACH!!!
What!? My math must be wrong!
Ugh, I do believe in fact that...
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Categories:
math,
Form: Narrative
The Pi That’s of Math Has Its DayThe pi that’s of math has its day,
But that of the baker, no way.
Though both are quite round,
Less merit is found,
In pies that in stomachs do lay.
...
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Categories:
math, food, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Equation to my poetryShe lived in a world of numbers, where every question had a clear answer.
Her mind moved in straight lines, solving equations with precision,
While mine wandered through the forests of words,
Twisting and turning in metaphors,
searching for meaning where
none was certain.
She could balance an equation in seconds,
But my poetry, with its tangled emotions and ambiguous...
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Categories:
math, longing, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
New from NewtonWhy all the fuss?
Having trouble with calculus?
When dividing a number that may vary,
it needn't be so scary -
such division, not so primitive,
is called a derivative,
and the inverse of that operation,
a new-fangled multiplication,
which, by storm, is taking the nation,
by the name of integration.
If you disagree, and are disputin',
take it up with Isaac Newton....
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Categories:
math, silly,
Form: Rhyme
math them-attic-attacksanything can happen...
as ridiculous as it sounds
like a...lodged-hic can...
end-tear one's mind and so some...
't'-(rain-a-sour-ass) rump starts yelling farts
claiming that the game board is his and...
so too...is your future
len
...
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Categories:
math, america, angst,
Form: Free verse
Purim Theorem!Purim Theorem!
Rambam holds Hashem is math,
Hashem does not take a path,
Like “Squaring the Circle”,
Such is illogical,
Yet the Zohar differs on Hashem’s craft!
Witness the Aron anomaly,
Giving rise to a homily,
Finite length & width yet zero volume,
Boggling the mind, yielding it solemn,
Evoking Emunah more than normally!
Size yet no volume?
Anomaly! as in Shalom,
Moshe saw that the “Burning Bush”,
Was...
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Categories:
courage, holiday, jewish, math,
Form: Limerick
ProofsProofs!!!
I could never grasp proofs
they were too much for me
How could side-angle-side equal
prove that the hypotenuse squared
plus, the cosine of angle A equal
the square root of Pi?
How could (x+a)^n=?_(k=0)^n¦?(n¦k) x^k a^(n-k) ?
prove to be the same as
f(x)=a_0+?_(n=1)^8¦(a_n cos??npx/L?+b_n sin??npx/L? )
How could a squared plus b squared
equal the sine of angle abc if...
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Categories:
humorous, math,
Form: Free verse
In Praise of SixHow many legs must have, an ant?
Can he do without? He can't!
So, when he puts on his slacks,
there's nothing that he lacks...
and how does a snowflake get his kicks?
The answer's in the number six!...
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Categories:
math, silly,
Form: Rhyme
No Jive
Categories:
math, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Math Poems
Definition | What is Math in Poetry?
Poems Related to Math
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