Today I'd like to direct you to the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, an online open-access journal that features poetry in each issue. The Table of Contents for the first issue of 2016 is now available here -- and I offer below a poem from Issue 1 of 2015. (Before sharing the poem "Prisoner's Dilemma" by Raymond Greenwell I want also to mention that JHM is looking for investigative journalists and that today's "Poem of the Day" at Poets.org is "Evolution" by Linda Bierds and inspired by the work of Alan Turing.)
I am particularly intrigued by Greenwell's poem because the Prisoner's Dilemma is a decision model close to my concerns about the environment. (More comments below.)
Prisoner's Dilemma by Raymond N. Greenwell
Your best choice is my demise.
My wise choice is your defeat.
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Thursday, February 11, 2016
Monday, March 25, 2013
Counting syllables -- and allowing abortions
In a perfect world in which every pregnancy is wanted and every life supported with love, there would be no need for abortion. As I work toward that world, I have penned this small syllable-square poem of concern about the vulnerability of young lives.
36 Syllables by JoAnne Growney
More than abortion, fear
unwanted lives -- saddest
consequence for children
conceived without a plan
for parenting. There is
more than one way to die.
36 Syllables by JoAnne Growney
More than abortion, fear
unwanted lives -- saddest
consequence for children
conceived without a plan
for parenting. There is
more than one way to die.
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