But the square on the diagonal

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http://www.britannica.com/topic/incommensurable

My dear girl do you wish to  be married?

Don’t study maths, else you’ll be harried.

Men are afraid of us

Women can’t mate with us

So  one might as well  die and  be buried.

 

My reaction may seem  too  extreme

For surely  one may get some esteem;

For playing with irrationals,

viewing  incommensurables

is a metaphor for political themes.

 

For whole numbers are easy to see

And fractions  quite rational  be.

But the square on the diagonal

Is totally irrational

And from the circumference’s demands we  may flee.

 

And comparing the circle and square

Shows  unconmensurable  flair.

And human folk too

Exhibit this too.

So in marriage don’t expect all to be fair.

 

A straight line can be tangent to a curve

But never can two such  things merge.

But if the line keeps quite still

the curve  then might  well

Curve back  with delight in its  swerves.

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6 thoughts on “But the square on the diagonal”

  1. Well, however you do your writing it turns ot superbly. I tend to write a prose piece slowly and to review it oh up to a hundred or more times. and let it sit for a long time. I am not hungry for publication in magazines or journals though Ive been publshed many times. Blogs I write quickly because much of my extensive research I use is readily available to me–stored up in my computer for years. When I write a piece I like, such as a personal essay, I am in heaven. Thank goodness I have a great reader-editor-critic in my wife who taught writing for many years and is very good. I think of you often and hope you are well, as does my wife Diana. Talk to you soon, David

    1. You are so kind David.Thank you.What good luck to have Diana there.You are a very good writer and your blog posts are excellent,I am touched that you both think of me.Thanks you so much.I am grateful for those friends I have found here who value what I do and whom I can study.Nobody emphasises the good side of the Internet .I sometimes f do a lot of editing and maybe I write too fast! Katherine xx

  2. The weather is very nice here for a change. Has been too much rain to suit anyone but the farmers here in the midwest. Have a ood haopy day too. Have a good week writing . Do you write a new blog every week?

    1. I’m glad it is warmer for you.I try to write a new poem every day but some days I find the ideas a bit short.That’s when I write ” nonsense” or I bring a poem I wrote before back again.I am sometimes surprised by what I find.I can’t imagine how I wrote some of them.It depemds on my emotions.I learned villanelles a year after my bereavement.I find it’s like exercise you have to keep it going
      I have to write stories because one or two people who are unwell enjoy them as did my husband,But I find prose hard work.I need plenty of energy are not much happens.I’d never have believed I would write such peculiar stories though.I imagined Henry James type writing
      Still, that which is in will come out!All the best,dear friend,Katherine

  3. Thank you Katherine for another intriguing poem that may mean from one to one thousand things–and you still may not be right. Best wishes. Have a godo day. David. Arithmatic and math were never my strengths, but I enjoyed this.

    1. Thanks so much,David.I have forgotten most of the maths I knew but certain things remain.The Greeks discovered irrational numbers and it caused horror!
      We have enjoyed some lovely weather recently.I hope your weather is good too and all is well.Best wishes,Katherine

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