Mathematically in love?

not really a personal one..wrote this as an article for our math magazine :)

Mathematically in love?

 

Every day in their lunch break,

She would put her headphones on

And drift in an off-field calculus,

 Trying to find the right expressions

In the quadratics of her life

 

She’d close her eyes

And think of the boy in her geometry class.

She’d try to add up the ways to say hi,

And subtract the humiliating probabilities.

 

She’d write updates in her journal,

About the guy who triples the speed of her heartbeat

And graphs a different point in her day

Imagining an algorithm for the two of them

 

In the bathroom after class,

She’d study her triangles in the mirror

And find reasons for her plans about the boy

Sitting behind her in geometry to be congruent

 

When she saw him leaning on the wall

Watching the Romeo and Juliet play from afar, they spoke

And at that point, she found out that

They have a common denominator after all

 

Like her, he was a critic

And with the intensity of actors

Plotting every lovely scene they watched

The students cry with the last line

 

She went home after with a grin in her face

Reduced her worries to its simplest terms

And mastered the equations of his smile

And his non-factorable ideas stuck in her mind.

 

Later, she’d write on her journal

Expanding the scenario with every detail

Thinking how her life could be as simple as

The square root of four.

 

Reviews

[Judy Ponceby]

Being a lover of math, :) made your theme very enjoyable to me :) And, such a sweet story.

[Daydreamer54]

I liked this, just becuz i like poems when they are wriiten as stories. I'll be honest and say that i HATE math, but this was an intresting idea. great write! :)

[Dizzy]

This poem made me grin. I love the math that was put into it and how it all made sense. This is wonderful =)

[Norma M Sutton]

lol Math was NOT my subject . . . still isn't I'm afraid. It's a nice piece, but mostly above my head.

[HopelesslyDevoted]

awww this is cute! what a great poem!

[elyza0926]

i don't like math.. but i really like this poem. and this is actually relevant to what i feel right now. great job! :)

[Nothing Personal]

WoW Oooh. This is one wonderfully, delightfully beautiful piece of poetry i've ever read. It is such a wonderful blending of the simple mathematical terminologies in the complex equations of getting attracted to someone and solving the equation for the probability of success and failure and proceeding only if P(Success) >= 0.5. LOL. I just loved this one. Made me smile. Made my feel like go out there, take your hands and shake it firmly and say well done, girl. Really made me smile :-)
In terms of poetry also, this is succinct, poignant and well paced. And i have to add i'm surprised this came from a 14year old...You have way to go..

[A Lone Creative Nomad]

Ha! I loved this! I'm a math geek and a lover of poetry so congratulations on combining two of my favorite things! This was a really good read. :)

[Huggy Bear]

This is one mathematically brilliant poem:)

[rielovella]

Wow! Such nice poem of yours. Unfortunately, I didn't saw your group's mag. Good job!