Decagon

Gold cherry

By onemorething

Sat, 28 Dec 2019
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11 comments
 

You have ten sides,

I have examined each one

when you exhibited them to me 

in a narcissistic flaunt of your golden ratio.

I have climbed the steepness of your vertices

and been impaled on your sharp angles;

even dissected to your individual faces,

you have never lost your cold symmetry.

From a distance you appear gentler, 

rounder, but closer up I endured 

the sculpture of your harsher lines,

and later I looked through the glassy shape of you

as if you were a window of calculated prisms.

I saw the span of sky and freedom through you,

I saw the expansion of oceans beyond

your mathematics - it filled my lungs

with the soft air that drifted outside

the outlines of your restrictive confines.

When I met you every segment of you opened,

bladed petals of 144 degrees of perfection,

but your geometry is a gilded cage

with its precision of ten bars and 

ten laws of inflexible difficulties. 

 

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Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)

Comments

Submitted by drew_gummerson on

Love this. You pierce the shape perfectly. 

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Thank you! I did wonder if I was taking it too far so glad it worked for you. Thanks for reading it. :)

 

Submitted by sean mcnulty on

Behold the poetry of shapes!  This terrific response to the Inspiration Point is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day, Please share and retweet!

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Oh, thanks very much! Ha. I quite like the idea of a poetry of shapes. I might move on to triangles next... :)

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Brilliant IP response  - really left-field! A very well deserved pick

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Thank you! It was a bit of an odd take on the IP, and found myself unable to strong-arm a wren into this either. :)

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

hahaha!

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

You must know how to work out the inside (obtuse) angles? It's very easy and quite neat. The same idea works for all regular polygons i.e 60o triangles, the square, pentagon hexagon and so on etc. Was it Archimedes that showed how these regular polygons can used to approximate the number Pi to any finite accuracy?

Do you have aspirations to study mathematics? Or did you?

My best regards! Tom Brown

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Hi Tom, I haven't been / am not a Maths student, just at times certain things in maths also have a poetry, I think. Thanks for reading and commenting. :)

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I like how you allude to a controlling personality, the way in Maths there is only one right answer:

you have never lost your cold symmetry.

From a distance you appear gentler, 

rounder, but closer up I endured 

the sculpture of your harsher lines,

 

ps re not fitting in a wren - Sir Christopher Wren designed a decagonal church called St Benet Fink in London :0)

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Hi Di, controlling personalities, exactly! And oh yes, re the church, I looked it up after reading your comment. Thanks for reading and your comment. :)