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Let's Pretend it's April - Nov. 9
Rules: Write a poem for LPiA on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a New Reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month, have written 30 poems for the month of November. (or one, or six, or fifteen) Prompts may be revisited at any time. All members are welcome.
Topic : Write a poem inspired by GEOMETRY
Form : Any
Line requirements: 8 or more
Feel free to reply with comments or kudos as you wish.
Questions?
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Side Angle Side
In the darkness
I remember the contours
of your shape.
We now lie
backs not touching
facing away
into the same depression
of the mattress sinking
lower each year.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
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11-10-2025, 02:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-10-2025, 06:56 AM by CRNDLSM.)
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een Inf
be s fa ina
ant to g ll te po
me in in ntial for
ols in g life exi
Id sh sting
T shooting S T A R S rising
he li R T ng
p vi A A ni s
ur ng T R wa ng
es S S d ki
t f T R b s an
or g A A u sant
m n R T r pea
of i ng S n ains
cl y yi tw in vill
ea d l ink g oes
n f ling Her
Even beyond the smog covering
Idols meant to be seen
Infinite potential for life existing
The purest form of clean
Even beyond the smog covering
Heroes villains peasants and kings
Dying flying twinkling burning living
shooting shining falling rising waning
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
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Nominal
A wise man said,
“We form our houses,
and thereafter
they form us.”
Which is to say,
geometry
gives shape to things made
and itself:
an airy ball of
cotton candy
looks a pink sphere
but is not.
 Non-practicing atheist
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(11-10-2025, 02:28 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote: .
een Inf
be s fa ini
ant to g ll te pote
me in in ntial for
ols in g life exi
Id sh sting
T shooting S T A R S rising
he li R T ng
p vi A A ni s
ur ng T R wa ng
es S S d ki
t f T R b s an
or g A A u sant
m n R T r pea
of i ng S n ains
cl y yi tw in vill
ea d l ink g oes
n f ling Her
Even beyond the smog covering
'Idols meant to be seen shining falling ...' finding it difficult to follow after that!
It'd be great if you could post the solution to the problem as well, under 'spoiler'.
Nice one!
(11-09-2025, 01:13 PM)Todd Wrote: Side Angle Side
In the darkness
I remember the contours
of your shape.
We now lie
backs not touching
facing away
into the same depression
of the mattress sinking
lower each year.
the 'depression....year' section is perfection. The sinking lower is from age, weight, and of course, there's the metaphor for the relationship.
Classic Todd
(11-10-2025, 04:33 AM)dukealien Wrote: an airy ball of
cotton candy
looks a pink sphere
but is not.
Egad!
Next you'll say that pi is not 3, and there's such a thing as air resistance 
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The Aesthetics of Symmetry
The bedroom clock stopped
in 1982 so you set it
to ten past ten,
the Swiss would understand
you said.
I kissed your pallor mortis
in 1992 when all the birds flew
south for the winter
The time was twenty past eight
as you spoke from the other side
of the clock. You said
the Swiss would understand.
If your undies fer you've been smoking through em, don't peg em out
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'A circle centred everywhere - such is God i.e. Zeus -
with perimeter nowhere', said Empedocles,
he learning this from Anaxagoras,
and he from the Persians (Oh, please!
the Greeks didn't form spontaneously. The Lorax
didn't exist before Dr Seuss.)
And perhaps the Persians borrowed from the Buddhists
of Achemenid India through the Evening News
of the day, or ascetic nudists
tired of mosquito bites on abdomen and thorax
in a hot country. With their Sphinxian questions
before Sophocles,
they'd borrowed in turn
from the old Persian myths, gods and demons that never learn,
which the Persians may have partially borrowed from the Assyrians
watching Babylon burn.
The Assyrians pilfered from the Babylonians
what the Babylonians had filched from the Sumerians
and the Sumerians from the first humans
to have seen the Ice Age floods.
But the lore goes back further, to a lake
with figures shuffling around it,
dressed in leaves
gathered from the forest,
Adam and Eve.
You and I are one in blood
at some point, Ali Maao Malin
and Dermot Reeve.
O Adam, O Eve.
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Genome
Their realties burn like brains in my stomach,
in my heart--what is burning?
Who makes the rules, God? Ganesa?
G came to be and is
The Original G is circumstantial resonance.
I came first and then I knew I came I saw .
The world is like this. Who says? Who can say who says without who and says here to say?
"If you find yourself in Hell, you might as well learn to enjoy it."
I said that. Who put it in quotations?
This sounds like stuff others would say . . .
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With A Straight Face
I rely, too much, I suppose
on the angles of our repose
the residing Z of our knees
and hips, our torsos aligned
parallel, I've learned, never
to meet. Our arms left
grasping, too small a radii
given their ratio imposed
upon such a circumference
yet, despite our geometry
we still find the intersection
between cosign and tangent
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Geometry of a home
All shapes,
All forms.
Without houses,
Wouldn't be homes.
Crooked teeth don't attract,
So will crooked houses.
Not inhabited,
Collapsing.
Stress builds -
anchors crack.
What shapes could they be?
If not for geometry.
I know that rhyme, rhythm, and meter are not academically standardized.
I am well aware of that, yet I primarily do free verse, and it's based on instinctual writing.
I try to avoid academic language or structure. My poems are not meant to convey a single answer.
I try to convey the unknown through minimalism, mostly dense short stanzas with many line breaks.
If you'd give a critique, please keep this in mind.
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