Saturday, August 23, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014
Sarah
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
Would not take the garbage out! She'd pout.
And so it piled up to the ceilings;
It cracked the windows, riled dad's feelings.
The garbage rolled on down the hallways
It raised the roof, it broke the wallways.
It smelled so bad the neighbors bolted.
All their friends were sorely revolted.
Stouts were run out of town; house burned down.
Black Bart the P o 8
Black Bart the P o 8
Robbed Wells Fargo in Cal state
His lifestyle—his fate
Claimed his poetry
Not his robbery should have
Jailed him…snobbery
I was caught, jailed—served my time
Should've been for my rhyme not crime
(Form is Tanka)
Thursday, August 21, 2014
WACKY
Eager
wacky
feisty
sabotaging
pachisi
sagenesses by,
cry DADA—
sanguinely,
cum
pacific
fables,
vain to hachured mean odiums' mind.
Yawping,
let idiotisms
to habitual palaver
Xyster!
{A Mathematical Method:
•Choose the word length of the poem if wished.
•Generate that many random numbers using range 1-26 (letters in alphabet)
•Choose words such that each has the number of letters of one random number.
•The letter beginning the word should be the number of its place in the alphabet.
•Cast out the 9s on large numbers, e.g., 26 is 6+2=8. Few Z-words of 26 letters.
•Make the poem in the order the random numbers were generated or scramble them as pleases.
•Voila. }
OBSERVATIONALLY*
Observationally,
preposterousness
habiting reconstructionists.
Observationally,
I cry, "Be quarrelsomenesses!"
Observationally,
Yakkers.
Symptomatologically,
Zaniness.
Decisively,
Babblement can aboon.
*Experiment. Words chosen by random numbers from position in the alphabet. Hard.
NAUTILUS
Nautilus, chambered.
Mathematics? Not really.
By nature only.
Smells more like…
Ah…normal distribution
(Of golden spirals).
You could look it up.
FIBONACCI? Not really.
Logarithmic coil?
Not exactly. Else
One or the other would fit.
Only nature fits.
EXCEEDING
Exceeding
speeding
vehicle
in
rushhour—
Now
in
gut
he's
feeling,
aspiring—
Full
roarings,
pumping
of
adrenalin
in
blood—
Perilous
heart
Math/Poetry
9, 8, 7, 11, 8, 3, 11, 3, 12, 7, 8, 13, 8, 7, 2, 9, 11, 5, 8, 5
Letters in each word chosen from random numbers, in order, left to right.
A GOOD BOY
RLS Mark II - A Good Boy Grown*
Woke before morning, happy all day,
Never said an ugly word, smiled - played
And now the sun goes down -hovers low
And I'm quite content, for I do know -
That morning shall see the sun arise
No bad dream shall fright my mind, or eyes
Sleep holds me tight no tossing - turning
Wake - refreshed - wash, shave, eat - but knowing
Work is play - feeds my tribe a-growing*
*From Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Good Boy"
- - Mathematics&Poetry - based on a mathematical square: the number of syllables in a line equals the number of lines.
ATHEIST
ATHEIST*
What is truth?
Atheism is poor, bereft— then Atheism is poor, bereft if God denied
Holy Trinity denied
Atheism is poor, bereft if Jesus denied
God denied —then God denied
Atheism is poor, bereft— then God denied
Holy Ghost denied
Atheism is poor, bereft if God denied
Jesus denied
Atheism is poor, bereft— then Atheism is poor, bereft
God denied
Atheism is poor, bereft
•
*Mathematics&Poetry—based on the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.
Cosmology
COSMOLOGY III
How can there be - anything?
Everything from nothing then everything from nothing if in the beginning was the Word
The Immense Hadron Collider has found Higgs
Everything from nothing if gravity waves observed
In the beginning was the Word then everything from nothing
Everything from nothing then in the beginning was the Word
The Higgs Boson lives
Everything from nothing if
in the beginning was the Word
Gravity waves observed
Everything from nothing then
Everything from nothing
In the beginning was the Word
Everything from nothing
•
Carl Andre Sampler
Carl Andre - A Sampler*
Convex Pyramide
Carl Andre if Carl Andre then Trabum (1972)
Sculptor - Minimalist then Sculptor - Minimalist if Carl Andre
Carl Andre then The Way, North, East, South, West (1972)
Still Blue Range (1989) then Still Blue Range (1989)
Carl Andre if Carl Andre then Carl Andre then Sculptor - Minimalist
Magnesium Squares
Carl Andre then Copper Galaxy
Sculptor - Minimalist then Trabum (1972)
Carl Andre then Carl Andre then Still Blue Range (1989)
Sum Roma (1997)
Carl Andre then Sculptor - Minimalist if Carl Andre
Equivalent VIII (1966-1969)
Carl Andre if Carl Andre if Carl Andre
Sculptor - Minimalist then Still Blue Range (1989)
Carl Andre then Trabum (1972)
The Way, North, East, South, West (1972)
Carl Andre if Carl Andre then Sculptor - Minimalist
Copper Galaxy
Carl Andre then Still Blue Range (1989)
Sculptor - Minimalist if Carl Andre
Carl Andre if Sculptor - Minimalist
Trabum (1972)
Carl Andre then Sculptor - Minimalist
Still Blue Range (1989)
Carl Andre if Carl Andre
Sculptor - Minimalist
Carl Andre
•
*Googling each prime numbered line leads on and on into Carl Andre's life work.
Mathematics&Poetry—based on the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.
Saturday, August 16, 2014
The Shasta Daisy
One
plant,
Shasta
Daisy, owns
such easy beauty—
belies it's enduring nature.
Needs no coddling; infiltrates, sprouts boldly year on year.
Tall, erect, flaunts pure white petals around a golden center; resists hungry insects.
Wizard of plants, Luther Burbank, absorbed fifteen years to make the purest white color he loved; breeding, crossing, combining four— perfection.
Bend down— look: brilliant white petals, neon yellow center in a spiral nautilus whorl, all on a stout green stalk. How many petals? A perfect thirty four? She loves me, she loves me not—count for yourself. Maybe average.
*Mathematics&Poetry—based on the FIBONACCI sequence.
Godfrey G. G. Gore
W. B. Rands [Square]—a shorter Victorian moral
Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore—
Was a boy who wouldn’t shut a door!
Winter came in that year of yore-
Sleet blew in and covered the floor. Was a boy who wouldn’t shut a door!
Winter came in that year of yore-
Summer came with its bugs galore—
Flies and gnats, cicadas and more.
At last his parents, irked full sore,
Shipped him away to Baltimore.
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