Love of numbers is common in childhood -- and traditional nursery rhymes offer chances to know numbers as playmates and friends. "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie . . . The king was in his counting house . . ." and so on. In "The Story of the Ten Blackbirds" poet Millicent Accardi combines a portrait of an amazing story-telling aunt with a collage of childhood memories, counted and remembered.
The Story of the Ten Blackbirds by Millicent Borges Accardi
Blended at times into
The three little pigs
Or the Catholic Saints.
Showing posts with label ten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ten. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2012
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Submit math-science poetry
During the month of November, the online journal Talking Writing is seeking submission of poetry with connections to mathematics and the science. Submit 4-6 poems to editor@talkingwriting.com.
O T T
ON E
ONE N N
ONE N N
These visual poems "One" and "Ten," above, are mine.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Poets who Count
For some poets, counting is part of the language of the poem. For others, counting determines the structure. Here are two poems of the former sort -- "Counting" by British poet Philip Larkin (1922-1985) and "Adding It Up" by New England poet Philip Booth (1925-2007) -- followed by opening stanzas of a poem for which counting is part of both content and structure: "Millennium" by mathematician Peter Cameron .
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