Progressive Mathematics as Stanzas

     Progressive Mathematics as Stanzas

When poetry was mathematics back

In distant, ancient India, the lines

Were full of meanings that our poems lack

Today.  With sinuousity of vines

Instead of straight or angled equals marks

And long equations on the smoothed out scrolls,

The reckonings were more like royal parks

Of beauty in the mind.  Each concept rolls

Out now esthetically as verse by Wilde

As well as hypothetically as sums

And angles.  The nibs and inks were mild

With calm as pretty girls’ dancing drums.

  This poetry was dense in beauty as

    The most quadratic of saxophonic jazz.

by phillipw | Mar 5, 2020 | IN, MA, MU | 0 comments