Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 15. Two Quantitative Sonnets

New year, but still the same old beguiling words, woven into tapestries that make me smile and wonder at your continuing skill and artistry. 

47 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

You get smiles for these.      Never scoffs.    Thank you for a nice start to my day.   

Thank you for letting me start your day with a bit of math!

32 minutes ago, northie said:

New year, but still the same old beguiling words, woven into tapestries that make me smile and wonder at your continuing skill and artistry. 

Thank you for being beguiled. I am glad you let a little mathematical language play its sweet music. 

Parker .. i wonder, do you see patterns and shapes as you write .. or look at the world?   i see things.. and words come in verse to me.. in any case the first of these i can actually understand the math.. i can see it as i read, so that was rather cool!  The second well.. only a mathematican or scientist would think of an embrace that way .. it's a wonder in and of itself.  Two wonderful sonnets. 

2 hours ago, Mikiesboy said:

Parker .. i wonder, do you see patterns and shapes as you write .. or look at the world?   i see things.. and words come in verse to me.. in any case the first of these i can actually understand the math.. i can see it as i read, so that was rather cool!  The second well.. only a mathematican or scientist would think of an embrace that way .. it's a wonder in and of itself.  Two wonderful sonnets. 

Sometimes, I really do sense patterns and shapes as I write. Or maybe it's the sense of a particular pattern that suggests what to say. I'm glad the math in the first one appealed to your sense. In the second, you're right - it's a nerdy kind of fun to suggest one could quantify something that really can't be measured, which is love itself. Thank you for your kind and very generous words today.

 even if you did give us word problems to solve.

11 minutes ago, dughlas said:

 even if you did give us word problems to solve.

 

Thank you, Dugh. I hope the words resolve themselves, eventually. 

Though under the weather

I still find you clever

Mixed up in the math

I can see a clear path

With your odds and your angles

Words dance like Bojangles

So to sum it all up

You've filled up my cup

Apologies, Parker... I'm sick... and foggy headed   My point is I love you and your nerdy brain. xoxo

2 hours ago, Headstall said:

Though under the weather

I still find you clever

Mixed up in the math

I can see a clear path

With your odds and your angles

Words dance like Bojangles

So to sum it all up

You've filled up my cup

 

Apologies, Parker... I'm sick... and foggy headed   My point is I love you and your nerdy brain. xoxo

Thank you, Gary. No apologies needed. I am glad these diverted you when you were feeling sick. That you followed them even so makes me smile all the wider. Your poetic response is delightful. Blessings and hopes for a swift recovery. 

No scoffs here, Parker. Your math is delightful. I can’t help but smile at the way you make these work.  

Both wonderful! 

5 hours ago, Defiance19 said:

No scoffs here, Parker. Your math is delightful. I can’t help but smile at the way you make these work.  

Both wonderful! 

Thank you, Def. There is a great satisfaction in using mathematical language this way. I am glad you smiled at them, too. 

Odd versus even is always a provocative notion to debate. Which is more natural and beautiful - perhaps the answer lies in the endless weaving anti-pattern of pi. 

The human minds can both simultaneously simply a pattern it's perceiving, and add greater meaning to it through complexity (like seeing it in 'the big picture,' for example). 

All of these thoughts are raised by your pairing of Sonnets here. Thank you  

On 1/9/2018 at 6:43 PM, AC Benus said:

Odd versus even is always a provocative notion to debate. Which is more natural and beautiful - perhaps the answer lies in the endless weaving anti-pattern of pi. 

 

The human minds can both simultaneously simply a pattern it's perceiving, and add greater meaning to it through complexity (like seeing it in 'the big picture,' for example). 

 

All of these thoughts are raised by your pairing of Sonnets here. Thank you  

I prefer to think that odds, evens and various multiples are differently beautiful, and all attractive in their ways. Evens seem almost crystalline, while odds appear organic and visceral in my mind. 

Number and mathematical pattern have their beauty; so do people. Why oughtn’t they intertwine once in a while?

Thank you for responding to these so eloquently.