Subtraction Poems | Examples


Premium Member 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 wrong questions

Where truth burrows
And real reveals.
Darkness stops being dark,
when you add some light


:)

Premium Member 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 what might be your reaction
when I tell you love and hate come down to simple addition and subtraction?

I draw your attention to those math lessons…the ones on basic facts…
Love as a plus…adds beauty to the world
Hate, as a minus…subtracts.

And if I may take a moment to extend this view, this perception…this vision
love and hate also relate…to multiplication…and division.

Hate divides us, it tears people apart…
it separates us by color, shape and size
Love brings us together…
it accumulates…it multiplies.

Perhaps some of us should go back to school and re-learn our basic facts
because until their connection to love and hate…we are all able to see
The Earth will remain only a fraction…
of the whole Earth she was created to be.
Form: Rhyme


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 feels
the same 

&

How to do emotive human Math equation 

Both Add & Subtract

Premium Member 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 into one
Without any depth there
one was destined to be none

Not a soul remembers him
He simply faded away
A whisper from yesterday
Who had nothing real to say
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 process called multiplication
A plus is the most legal for the mind
'Cause it never keeps anything behind

But everything has to undergo change
We're bound by this law of the universe
That we can see a thing and its reverse
Just as a domain produces its range
Our gaining results another's losing
Hating this we'll find us violating

Nature is as compliant as we are
We have a minus which means subtraction
Of something from our accumulation
Like seeing true friends going home afar
For memory 'tis the most illegal
Putting this sign between minds is lethal

To Eric and Michael
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 the way you like to beg
for attention and distraction
'till the world is turning blue
you're my favorite 
for subtraction...
take away
the me from you!
Form: Couplet

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