c

Turn on a light

And watch its flight

Try to see c go

You can't, you know

But c is all you see

The fastest flight

c is sight

The speed of light

c is all you see

Under the sea

c is slow

Other things can go

Faster than the fastest

But c in space

Can't be displaced

The fastest flight

c is light

The speed of sight

c is all you see

Continuity

A function is continuous

if you can draw it

without taking your pencil off the page

and there are no sharp corners

It is an accurate, and dull, description

Imagine it as a rollercoaster

in which, once strapped in, you do not die

Or a waterslide that does not leak,

nor hurtle you into space

Perhaps continuity is metal rails

fastened in parallel by wooden boards

and Donkey Kong speeds along it

with the sweet assurance

he will not fall into pits

nor crash into right angles

When the evil lizards chase him

down the long and lonely mine

he prays for continuity

And when the terrors come to visit

in the cold and silent night

they come as floor and ceiling,

piecemeal or absolute,

and his sleep-scream shakes the earth

or it is just pencils on paper

that only bend in curves

Series Equation

The

Number of words

In every line of this poem

Can be described in two ways: a statement, an equation

The current line number plus the number of words in the previous line, or ½(l²+l)

Triangle

All I am

Is contained within

Three strict bounds

My base: my body, b

Muscles, bones and gut

Anchored in the physical

Branching from the base

Two sides rise

Reaching beyond my body

My mind, a

Thoughts and feelings

My mental acumen

My spirit, c

Heart and soul

Me, supernatural

My peak

Pinnacle and zenith

Where mind and spirit meet

Its height above my body, h

In proportion to

My strength of mind and soul

I am a triangle

Body, mind and soul

A trigonometric identity

Circles

Circles here 'n' circles there

Circles circling everywhere

Brilliant circle in the sky

Blinds the circles of our eyes

Circles up 'n' circles down

Circles circling round 'n' round

Shifting circle of the night

Joins the points of circly light

Circles bottom, circles top

Circling circles never stop

The circles 'n' circles that are trees

Hold the paper circles of the bees

Circles east 'n' circles west

Circles circling all the rest

The circle planet that's our home

Does in circles always roam

Circles fro 'n' circles to

Circling circles circling you

Atomic circles in everything

Made of circle quarks that act like string

Circles here 'n' circles there

Circles circling everywhere…