Comments on: 55Saturday: The Poetry of Math Edition

By: Fat Head

Fat Head — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:49:30 +0000

THIS IS BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: bitoon

bitoon — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:25:47 +0000

i cant find what im looking for?? doh??

By: Gaurav Mishra

Gaurav Mishra — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:51:58 +0000

A 'left-handed fib' for a friend, who happens to be homosexual. Inspired by AishwaryaÂ’s post and the Queer By Choice website.

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Queer. Yes.

Left-handed

Too, if you must ask.

But sinister? Not really.

Unless you insist, of course. Some people do, sometimes.

Â“Why?Â” they question me. Â“Why not?Â” I question instead. I think I chose my left-handed-ness.

Now, my left-handed orientation, my left-handed lifestyle, even my left-handed writing, feels strangely right. Sinister, someone said?

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By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:38:41 +0000

MY DANCE IS MATHEMATICS, a collection of my mathematical poetry has recently been published by Paper Kite Press and is available for e-mail order at http://www.wordpainting.com/ Math poetry also is available at my website http://joannegrowney.com

By: Aranyi

Aranyi — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:39:48 +0000

Ahahahaha finally! 55 fib. what a challenge!!! Thank you Anna and abhi! This makes work worthwhile by quelling the longing for lunch! Â… she looked at him anxiously. Â“You can always share my bedÂ”. He said. Immense relief and gratitude flooded her as he tacitly accepted her. His legendary bruises on her neck burned as the disturbed dreams of travelers past crowded her subconscious, converging on that hotel pillow in a menagerie of silent screams of desperation.

By: loophole

loophole — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:20:26 +0000

More mathematical, less lyrical, but hopefully my next attempt will be more mathelyrically balanced.. this is fifty-five words, eighty-eight syllables, and of course – the number of syllables in each line is governed by the Fibonacci sequence. Like any good scientist, I start my Fibonacci sequence with a 0.. Yes, I know – the rhyming’s mostly forced.

00 – !!

01 – math? 01 – words?

02 – should one? 03 – count or rhyme?

05 – math-a-ly-ric-al 08 – puzzles like this take up much time..

13 – arguably, i should be working on my research… 21 – but although bad for graduation, procrastination is not yet much of a crime.

34 – unfortunately, i still have nineteen words and thirty four annoying syllables i must absolutely use before this line’s complete.

By: maisnon

maisnon — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:25:46 +0000

I'd just like to point out that Math and Poetry is a course offered at my alma mater:

An exploration of the way in which the patterns that we observe in the world about us can be described by language and understood with the tools of analysis and synthesis. A carefully selected sequence of poems and mathematical problems will be examined in a discussion format, and students will be expected to examine similar examples on their own. COURSE COORDINATORS P.D.Taylor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, M.Berg, Department of English.

By: siddhartha m

siddhartha m — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:07:46 +0000

gtf – nice one. that was my method too.

By: cookie

cookie — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:12:58 +0000

awwws @ ovvie’s poem!

By: gtf

gtf — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 23:32:16 +0000

Not 55 words, but 54 syllables. Couldn't resist !

, null, void, shunya. Elusive, unavoidable. Perfection in pure emptiness Unraveler of secrets, creator of paradoxes. and in this little poesy, the syllable missing, call it first, last or fifty-fifth

Peace