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    Parker Owens
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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 15. Two Quantitative Sonnets

I do not believe I have posted these before. In any event, the errors are all mine.

Odd and Even

An even is divisible by two,
but odds are not so easily defined,
for some divide, but others are inclined
to make it hard their factors to review.

To beat the odds, one often has to stew
on mooted lists of numbers just to find
one's arithmetic stars are misaligned
and so the process starts again anew.

A sum of digits helps with nine and three,
while rules for five were known from ancient time
and checking seven makes one want to flee
though patterns for eleven are sublime;
but undivided might we ever be,
composite lovers always in our prime.

 

Quantify

How might I find the span of your embrace,
precisely log the radius of a hug
or calculate the dosage of your grace
in every kiss, my spirit's favorite drug?

What measure will determine the degree
of fondness in your fingers' gentle press,
or reckon up to decimal places three
the amplitude of every sweet caress?

I ask how deep a snuggle may extend,
its magnitude and breadth when you enfold
my body in your arms, and then pretend
you cannot tell my feet are icy cold?

Dimension stops when we are intertwined,
for boundless love can never be defined.

Leave a comment if you like. Scoff or smile, I will be grateful either way.
Copyright © 2017 Parker Owens; All Rights Reserved.
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Mikiesboy

Parker .. i wonder, do you see patterns and shapes as you write .. or look at the world?   i see things.. and words come in verse to me.. in any case the first of these i can actually understand the math.. i can see it as i read, so that was rather cool!  The second well.. only a mathematican or scientist would think of an embrace that way .. it's a wonder in and of itself.  Two wonderful sonnets. 

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Parker Owens
2 hours ago, Mikiesboy said:

Parker .. i wonder, do you see patterns and shapes as you write .. or look at the world?   i see things.. and words come in verse to me.. in any case the first of these i can actually understand the math.. i can see it as i read, so that was rather cool!  The second well.. only a mathematican or scientist would think of an embrace that way .. it's a wonder in and of itself.  Two wonderful sonnets. 

 

Sometimes, I really do sense patterns and shapes as I write. Or maybe it's the sense of a particular pattern that suggests what to say. I'm glad the math in the first one appealed to your sense. In the second, you're right - it's a nerdy kind of fun to suggest one could quantify something that really can't be measured, which is love itself. Thank you for your kind and very generous words today.

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2 hours ago, Headstall said:

Though under the weather

I still find you clever

Mixed up in the math

I can see a clear path

With your odds and your angles

Words dance like Bojangles

So to sum it all up

You've filled up my cup

 

Apologies, Parker... I'm sick... and foggy headed :)  My point is I love you and your nerdy brain. xoxo

 

Thank you, Gary. No apologies needed. I am glad these diverted you when you were feeling sick. That you followed them even so makes me smile all the wider. Your poetic response is delightful. Blessings and hopes for a swift recovery. 

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AC Benus

Odd versus even is always a provocative notion to debate. Which is more natural and beautiful - perhaps the answer lies in the endless weaving anti-pattern of pi. 

 

The human minds can both simultaneously simply a pattern it's perceiving, and add greater meaning to it through complexity (like seeing it in 'the big picture,' for example). 

 

All of these thoughts are raised by your pairing of Sonnets here. Thank you :) 

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On 1/9/2018 at 6:43 PM, AC Benus said:

Odd versus even is always a provocative notion to debate. Which is more natural and beautiful - perhaps the answer lies in the endless weaving anti-pattern of pi. 

 

The human minds can both simultaneously simply a pattern it's perceiving, and add greater meaning to it through complexity (like seeing it in 'the big picture,' for example). 

 

All of these thoughts are raised by your pairing of Sonnets here. Thank you :) 

 

I prefer to think that odds, evens and various multiples are differently beautiful, and all attractive in their ways. Evens seem almost crystalline, while odds appear organic and visceral in my mind. 

 

Number and mathematical pattern have their beauty; so do people. Why oughtn’t they intertwine once in a while?

 

Thank you for responding to these so eloquently. 

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