Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 732
For this week’s prompt, write a math poem. If you dislike math, no problem: Write an anti-math poem. If you love math, then have it. Write about addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentials, and so on. Or write about mathematicians. Or just drop a number or two into your poem that’s kind of not about math at all. It’s your poem, after all.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at a Math Poem:
“Equations,” by Robert Lee Brewer
When I was young, I dreamed I’d be
a great mathematician figuring out
the underlying code of the universe,
or, at least, your heart covered in shells,
and I wonder–sometimes–if I’m AI:
the repetitive nature of my dialogue
and my diatribes and the dye of my
soul was cast long before even I
can remember, but here I am still
wondering if maybe in the future
I’ll be the one to solve every problem
that separates your attention from me.
