A little bit of you, a little bit of cosmos.

Although we had
our differences,
united our love equation
had equals
where our trigonometry
was entangled in conversations.
While calculus was the key
to find the window
to your soul;
in algebraic expression
our lives were
all mathematical:
you, me, x, y, z,
the rest of the world.
a Pythagoras shadow,
and time - the great divider
of us all.

Reviews

[Patricia Wedel]

When Andrew and Jacob write poetry...
I feel I am in high school again and they are
the professors. It keeps me young and
counting on my fingers ... and yet I did
enjoy Geometry most of all. Now I am a certified
confessor. gently, Pat

[andrew mitchell]

You are too kind Pat. I think I definitely lack the finesse of both you and Jacob when it comes to poetry and the like. Glad you had fun with it as I did.

[Patricia Wedel]

Kindness is contagious... so is mischief and melancholy... finesse sounds like a new type of “Sportin Life” like in Porgy and Bess”. Love that Play... and the Music.
It is two am... better go to sleep 😴 nite nite

[John the Baptist]

Really glad Erin-Cilberto saw this one; it's the type of symbolism he uses so well. Liked especially the philosophical ending.

[andrew mitchell]

Glad too. Thank you John for your words.

[barleygirl]

It's refreshing to view love thru a practical lens. I get so sick of all this flowery romantic crap that gets identified as "love" . . . but in my observation (I'm no expert, being single all my life) . . . people who stay together a long time fit together in a nuts-and-bolts way. It's about compatibility & that's what your mathematical references bring to mind for me. I love your extended math metaphor! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[andrew mitchell]

Thanks for the chuckle Margie, and yes it is a bit of nuts and bolts in a maths sort of way.

[Robert Trakofler]

LOL I took algebra 3 times:/ math and the bunny's brain not a good combo... the last time I took it the teacher taught the class in front of my desk:( I do like pythagoras it is a shame that people still don't believe the earth is round today (when he figured it out in the 3rd century BC) well the moral of this poem must be if I was better at math maybe I would of ended up better at love:/

[andrew mitchell]

Funny Robert. It’s all rather abstract maths! Thanks for the visit Robert.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this would have been a poem my dad would actually have liked a lot...it would have made sense to him with his Engineering and Math background...

he would have chuckled...I wish I could have shared this with him.
it made me smile.
j.

[andrew mitchell]

Thanks Jacob for your kind words, it’s all abstract maths lol.