One of my recent discoveries of math-poetry is in the activities of Hofstra University professor Johanna Franklin, Franklin asks her students to compose Haiku and she has recently sent me the following material from various courses and semesters:
Math equals patterns
patterns not everyone sees
patterns we all need.
(introduction
to proofs, Spring 2023)
Why do I have my math students write haikus at the end of the semester? Because I love both poetry and playing with words, and the American conception of a haiku strikes me as a perfect poem for a mathematician: the counting of syllables, the symmetry.