Poetry Thursday #5
Today's assignment--a poem with math terms. Plane geometry in my sophomore year in high school was the only math class I ever liked. So here's the poem.
by Norma Bruce
Feb. 1, 2007
You're the only one I ever loved.
Degenerate and full of sin--
your height, your legs
and references to horizontal.
I so me try.
It wasn't meant to be.
I was too square and plane--
just a double cone
melting under Golden spiral rays.
I some try.
You were one dimensional,
between radical and mean,
with just the line
to touch my obtuse midpoint--
Is o me try.
Before I go on a tangent--
Upon reflection
I no longer flip over your
face or cute little axis.
You are zero to me now.
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Hi Norma. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
ReplyDeleteYour poem gives me a chuckle, thinking of all the lines trying meet up. Do you think they use dating sites?
Rose
Very clever (and funny). Good use of the prompt!
ReplyDeleteI laughed out loud.
ReplyDelete"you are zero to me now"
I like this!
gautami
Straight Curves
Love the evolution of the last line. Yes.
ReplyDeleteSo so clever! I love the conjugations of isometry - well done!
ReplyDeleteOh Norma just FABULOUS. And I don't use that word lightly. Your last lines for each stanza: so perfect, and of course, as many have said, teh final line, and the one before it: had me laughing with delight. Smart great work. I had a crush on someone in sophomore year high school geometry class. Can't say as much for the class itself though...
ReplyDeleteNeat play on words. I notice we both used some of the same terms! I too liked the different ways you approached "isometry"
ReplyDeleteVery clever wordplay.
ReplyDelete"your cute little axis"- hmm... where would that be exactly?
ReplyDeleteVery clever poem...
Hi Norma :),
ReplyDeleteI joined PT recently. I used to teach Geometry and other math before switching my career totally over to art and writing. This is so clever! I like the lilt to the writing and the plays on words. I'm smiling. Nicely done!