[Solan]

Hrmf. This isn't what I call bad poetry. It's what I call "candidates for vanity press publication"!

Are double entries allowed? Here is a poem that is quite recent, 2 months old, and posted at Met 1:


Squaring the circle

The circle and the square,

the twin
perfections of the human nature.
The ancient
mathematicians sought submission of

the one, endeavouring to make a square to match the circle's area;
to "square the circle"
with a compass and a ruler. Leonardo
da Vinci found the circle's square when looking

at the human body's
proportions. But construction proved soon after
to be impossible. But still men tried to make the circle kneel
before the square's dominion. And still men try to make the human nature kneel

before reduction to mechanic properties. But squares
can never fill the circle. Many tried, and many are the men who now
have found: There's always something
left behind.

----

-Svein Olav

[This message has been edited by Solan (edited May 15, 2002).]