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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 83. November Now
Allusion
My students often think me rude
when I to poetry allude
while in the course of math to teach
of intersections, real or skewed.
Perhaps it is beyond their reach
a line of Frost or Yeats to breach;
still less of Shakespeare do they know
besides what counts as common speech.
They wonder what such words bestow
on sines’ and cosines’ onward flow,
their amplitude and frequency,
which vexed equations try to show.
Perhaps a verse might help them see
some axiom with piquancy
remembered to decrepitude
as if ‘twere learned with recency.
Transition
Today we had a practice snow
to interrupt the status quo
of autumn’s chilly, grey decline
advancing into Scorpio.
Each year the planets must align
to end the harvest so benign
preparing earth for winter’s chill,
in white the trees to redesign.
So frost is training field and hill,
the stream that wends about the mill,
for so it must obey the stars
a solstice lesson to instill.
Above the cloud, soon setting Mars
presides o’er sleetish seminars,
preparing winds that howl and blow
for journeys from the land of tsars.
May your November be brighter than the snow that greeted me this morning. Reflect, rant or rave here - it's fine by me.
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