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Open Poetry #48

Pi are squared

Tim
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since 1999-06-08

Posts 1794

0 posted 2013-06-08 10:18 AM

Heaven to Murgatroyd
Done found me a trapezoid,
Who had went off on a segment,
When he misplaced his congruent
And got lost in an octagon,
Where a quad cast a hexagon
and scared his transversal,
into an equilateral,
So I said, "would you please,
hand me your isosceles,
and never again dangle,
your obtuse triangle,
'Cause it ain't a bit acute,
Nor a rectangle to boot."
That there trapezoid replied,
"I've got a scalene inside,
With a bisector that's fried,
My tangential is squarely drawn,
So this here trapezoid is polygon."

The end.

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

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Eternity

1 posted 2013-06-08 11:36 AM

Oh my, this is so cute, Tim! I adore geometry and enjoyed your dialogue here very much.

Margherita

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

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South Louisiana

2 posted 2013-06-08 01:37 PM

Hah! . . .

quote:
Heaven to Murgatroyd

Great line to begin this interesting piece with and it just gets better and better, and . . .

~*~ What does a clock do when it's hungry? It goes back four seconds. ~*~

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

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3 posted 2013-06-09 12:57 PM

Super clever and amusing, Tim. Enjoyed.
Ida

katahdin
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4 posted 2013-06-09 01:54 AM

loved it!
Kat >^..^<

Nan

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since 1999-05-20

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5 posted 2013-06-09 07:42 AM

I SO MUCH wish I'd written this. It's just what I needed this morning. Thank you, Tim..

Tim
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since 1999-06-08

Posts 1794

6 posted 2013-06-09 09:39 AM

Thank you for the comments. I wrote the poem for my daughter who is a 7th grade math teacher. She just got back to Kansas after chaperoning a trip of her students to Washington D.C.
Her female students were all excited when they were told they were going to spend the day at the Washington Mall... alas, not a single Abercrombie & Fitch

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