(sometimes I get more
than I bargain for)
but I don’t get
numbers.
Numbers do worse
than humiliate
or elude me
they don’t add up.
I am no algebra tart
ravished
by the meretricious music
of the spheres.
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| My eyes and nose never streamed with incontinent ecstasy through geometry classes as my disastrous triangles collapsed in a cacophony around me. Perhaps it’s a failing to grasp or even want the utterly perfect number burning through my retina like the utterly perfect morning. Instead I peer with nauseating vertigo into the deep dark pitch of numbers like an exhausted mammoth dangerously tottering on the edge of a bottomless mystery." |
4 comments:
I do love numbers :).
Pretty photografer, nice eyes :).
So this Dorothy Porter... then she liked to write poems, didn't she?
did i ssay? didwesay?
whydoeslovetearusapart?
focusonthefuture!
wearereadyforthefuture, thefutureisnotready.
Pythagoreanism defines "Number" as an universal archetype, "the principle, source, and root of all things." More specifically, everything is composed of "the elements of number," which the Pythagoreans identified as the Limited and the Unlimited. The Pythagoreans engaged in the study of number theory or arithmetic (number in itself), geometry (number in space), harmonics or tuning theory (number in time), and astronomy (number in space and time).
We are surrounded by numbers. We can't avoid them, whatever we do.
Harmony of universe is characterized by numebers, but fortunately, art let us appreaciate it at a superior level. I don't think that art and mathematics are so different. They just give us different visions of the reality...
Lovely poem, I liked a lot this passage: "like an exhausted mammoth/ dangerously tottering/on the edge/of a bottomless mystery". "Bottomless mistery" let me think about the infinity of numbers.
This is a very inspirating post, dear Diane. As usual. ;)
Hugs
wonderful comments....thank you all!
Rosa I learn so much you...hugs darling!
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