- have a boring paper coming up
- want to sleep (but can't)
- like simple math
- love playing around with words and
- are an amateur poet?
- mathematical relationship between numbers which have homonyms,
- create an overarching theme including all three
- in a poem!
(I wanted to demonstrate to myself that when you force yourself to look for ways when you think none can possibly exist, you can almost always find them!)
I found it to be quite a daunting task, but eventually came up with this:-
"When I was just one,
I almost never won :-(
We became two,
and only sometimes managed to :-|
We became four,
and came new strengths to the fore :-)
And finally, while eight?
Our problems, we just ATE :-D
How could this be true?
Alone I fail, and succeed in a crew?
I thought all I could,
and then I understood.
Every time we were double,
half was our trouble!
Into reality turned all our dreams,
it's just the wonder of teams! :-) "
I'm pretty proud of this one, as I am of the earlier one, which came into existence when I had set myself up a similar challenge about including paradox and wit in a four line poem :-)
