Carolina Riemann

Carolina  was the daughter of Riemann.
She often went around with no shoes on.
When the cat bit her toe
It angered her so
She pushed it through the mirror again.

Although Herr Riemann was her father,
She did not like him or maths either.
She loved to write verse
Exceptionally terse,
And she always wanted to know  about whether.

Riemann had four sons and four daughters,
But Carolina was the one most sought after.
She had golden blonde hair
And a complexion so fair
But good luck was not, alas, what this brought her1

She married a man from Tasmania
Who won this fair maiden’s favour.
But he was a geometrician.
What a frightful profession
For a lady with severe erotomania.

He studied poor Carolina’s naked form,
As he wanted to learn figure drawing.
He reduced her to a series
Of ellipses with queries.
For marriage this is not the norm.

Caro would have preferred to be a hyperbola.
If she had to be something curvobala
Hyperbolas are eternal
At matters diurnal.
At love they are very superbola.

I like Carolina in my mind.
For a girl she was exceedingly kind.
She helped her old dad,
When his mirror made him sad.
And his cat was trapped there behind.

His first cat was named Madame Zeta.
And I never knew a cat that was neater.
She made her own bed
And combed her furry head.
Her one grief was not having a person compute her.

His second  best cat was a male,
Which had a long and multi-striped tail.
He named it Zero,
And it became a hero
For studying the geometry of whales!

You recall how the cat went through a mirror,
While Prof.Riemann was having his dinner?
He tried to get through
With a tube of UHUH
But in Wonderland there are no winners.

Intimacy,love and other thoughts of laughter

I’d like to say that I love you,
It’s something I often mean to do.
Oh, man,you are mine;
You give me pleasures sublime.
But I’m dying to go to the loo! 100531-223053
I want to see you tonight.
I’ll be a heartwarming sight.
I’ve just had a bath
Outside on the path.
The blackbirds have all taken fright.

I managed to shampoo my hair
With rosemary and lemon and flair!
I look very sweet
If you don’t look at my feet!
So please hurry up and come near.

I’ll give you my kisses galore.
And then I’ll kiss you some more.
We’re not here for long
So this is my song.
You are the man I adore!

Love comes again  for the old.
That’s something the young are not told.
We still feel a high
When our lover comes by.
And  to cap it all we have grown bold.

Although love can make me feel vulnerable.
Intimacy makes my weaknesses knowable.
I read Shakespeare in bed
And I stand on my head,
Does that make me less than completely adorable?

Intimacy is some thing we all fear,
Whenever a person comes too near.
If you have a hidden vice
It makes you think twice.
About making your defenses more clear.

Impractical at heart

I’m so  basically impractical at heart.
I can’t get electronic devices to start.
I gave the TV a kick,
And hit it with a stick.
Yes,my life is filled with fine art!

The same problem occurred with my lover.
He hid nervously under the cover!
I gave him a stroke,
And said “You’re a fine looking bloke”
But he ran away veery quick with ANOTHER!

I think I made a mistake.                                                 
In quoting from  the poems of Blake.
I read “tyger burn bright,
In forest of night.”
Maybe not the right allusion to make!

Discussing the state of the Economy
Does not generally make for much levity,
Better to snuggle
Or even too huggle
 That would lead to less severe fear of gravity.

Women are supposed to be soft,
But I  occasionally tell  a man to get stuffed.
It’s like an Exam
To tell the boy from the man.
‘Tis better to have lost than to lust.
.

Sunny April day

Green leaves ,in sun, in shadow,
Green leaves my heart is waiting for you.!
Early sun has danced on you all day,
The air and earth conspire in  joyous play.

Green leaves come out in spring time
Blossom cascades  in generous gleams.
Green leaves,so many  tints and shades,
Decorate so well my garden’s open space.

Green leaves,my heart is moving with you.
Green leaves,I love your time.
The sun and breeze upon my skin…..
New summer is almost ready  to begin.

A little late love song

It’s a bit late in the day for a poem

I’m only a human you know!
but if you feel like a-knowing
Then to your bookshelf you go.
Take out a volume of Shakespeare
He was my ancestor too.,
Then if you need a short break, dear,
A sonnet should do it for you.
Take out a clean piece of paper
And your pen and some ink.
Make up a poetic caper,
Then you can have forty winks.
It’s a bit late in the day for a lover
Although I’m still very sweet.
If anyone feels like another
Just send me your name, via Tweet.
Take out a volume of Homer.
Read it instead of the News.
Then if you fall into a coma
We’ shall all be very amused!
Take me into your arms now,
Dance me right round this dear room.
I love you so much I can’t say so
I’ll just fall down here  in a swoon

In my mind I'm eating smashed tomatoes

I love eating mashed potato.
I love meeting lonely strangers.
I like the mystery
and finding out their history.
I love greeting squashed tomatoes.
I love whistling new arrangements.
Don’t you just love the music
Of all equations cubic?
I love beating new conductors
I love breaking new constructions
Can’t you just hear the noises
When I walk across beds of roses?
It beats me what I’m saying
Is it time for me to start praying?
I like the arts of fantasy.
Reality bores the pants off me.

That’s  nearly quite enough”[The Editor]

Are you afraid you’ll lose me?
I’ll meet you here next Tuesday.
Can’t you just see the hailstones
Destroying all our mobile phones?
I’m not going to leave me,
I’m a kind friend mainly.

I’ll cook your eggs and bacon
Though I know you’re only faking.
Can’t you see the moon shine,
 On silver coated lupines?

We’ll solve cubic equations,
In groups of tribulations.
In my mind I’m eating strawberry ices.

And  counting rats and mices.

In my mind I’m eating smashed tomatoes .
I bought 500 new potatoes.
Don’t you just  hate your lover
When they fall for someone other?
Why can’t I got to  Auntie Rythma’s?
I still believe in following Father Christmas!
My heart is beating like  von Karajan.
It makes my self feel  like a little worrying.
Don’t you just love Monday
Because it comes  right
after Sunday!

Everything will be alright after Sunday,
I’ll definitely find you one day.
You’re hiding from the  light beams
Nothing’s what it ever seems
Not even in your dreams.

In my mind I’m rolling down a haystack.
And I ‘m determined never to come back
Even when my cats turn all black.
And miaow from the chimney stack!
I like being out of it.
I have no doubt of it.
In my mind I saw a flat tomato
Playing Beethoven’s violin concerto…….

Fools for gold

Who  has never felt shame?
Who has never tried to make a friend,
And been rejected or ignored?
Who has never felt embarrassment?
Who has never felt grief
When a small gesture would have helped
but it has ,unknowingly, been with held?
How many people have the imagination
to guess what’s in your mind,
And to embrace  you rather than push you away?
Noone,Noone.Noone knows.
Noone knows these numbers.
Noone knows these names.
Noone knows how many feel diffident,
Nor how many feel shame.

Being alive is joyful!
Being alive is pain!
Being alive is all we have,
We’ll never be alive again.

I look into your eyes today
I sense your shame and woe.
I look into your eyes now
And tell you that I know,

Being alive is lonely.
Being alive is good.
Being alive is pain indeed
Unless you’re made of wood.

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April fool


We once had a doctor called Boole
Who hated to look like a fool.
If his diagnosis was wrong
His face grew so long
It made me feel positively cruel.

When I had a rash on my brain
He thought I was going insane.
But calamine cream
Worked like a dream!
So I shall use it again and again.

Doctors have a difficult time,
When patients won’t toe the line.
But we need our own voice
And to make our own choice.
We can’t fit into another’s design.

The homeless person

You who never knew a home
Never feel quite free to roam.
Fall into your cosy bed.
And roam free in your dreams instead.

A friend who never texts you back
Cares not that he care may lack.
‘T is a proof that he would rather
Be self absorbed than do a favour.

If your husband gives you money,
Sends you out to buy more honey.
‘T is a proof of his sweetness.
Therefore goodnight and may God bless.

Geometry ,my foot

If you love me as a whole
You’ll love my feet.
They are bent into strange shapes
Quite mathematical.
A right angle at the base of my big toe,
A parabola under my arch
Semi circle of heel.
There are no straight lines here.
Euclid’s geometry’s no use for this surface,
And its several dimensions.
Riemann is the one for me.
His theory of the curved nature of space
May have been based on
A loving examination of a woman’s foot.
An ant has no trouble making the passage
From left to right.
How could have anyone believed
The world is flat?
I walk along the shoreline of my mind
To see what treasures
Dreams have cast up,before
They sink back into the sand
Trickling through my fingers
Like time itself.
As Blake saw Eternity in such a grain
What would he think of
Holkham Beach?
Miles of pale sand,facing direct North.
Whereas for you,my lover,
I am your Magnetic North,I hope.
Time to make progress
On this art:
“Sketch your own foot.”
But will anyone believe this
Lunatic script.My feet were made for
Someone who lived up a tree,
Not for Manolo Blahnik shoes
And heels.
Take me to the zoo,
I’ll meet my own kind there!