Adeline Foster

Adeline Foster

Instructor of poetry, Hagerstown, MD
Sunday, December 16, 2007

^ An Acutely Obtuse Pythagorean Lyric Comments

Rating: 4.5

^An Acutely Obtuse Pythagorean Lyric

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Adeline Foster
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Daithi Holbrúc 27 June 2014

Ha! Defiantly adds up !

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Daniel Y. 05 March 2014

A clever story and clever word play. I'm afraid I missed a majority of the puns or allusions. I have a poem in development which you will enjoy. For now check out my poem Prime.

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Gary Kedron 28 August 2013

you were right, I so enjoyed reading it... love it! thank you for the comments on my poetry...

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Elena Plotkin 24 June 2013

You definitely have a certain flair when it comes to poetry and mathematics. Very enjoyable read.

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Danny Draper 17 June 2013

This has it all including time travel or messages for the the future unknown. Acute poem not at all diagonal, as it gets to the point.

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Lonnie Hicks 09 December 2012

Very witty Adeline and insightful!

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Paul Brookes 05 December 2012

Still laughing soooooooooooo funny and yet informative Loved it : 0) P

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John Brown 28 October 2012

Hee hee hee. What a cleverly written poem. I love it.

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Terry O'leary 16 August 2012

Very clever! You might like 'Zero Forces Infinity'... Terry

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Harindhar Reddy 20 March 2012

Hurray! A terrific poem with rhyme at prime with humor at the helm. When poets write Adeline is my favorite poet and I just took it for granted but after reading this poem, I feel the same. ha ha ha a good poem Adeline! Hope you catch up this poem of mine........ The Lonely Train on the Lonely Track with 24 Coaches Painted Black

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Danny Draper 01 March 2012

Indeed not! Terrific, and told with inticate rhyme and great humour. 'the triangle turned out to be a square' just another fundamental flaw in the universe exposed.

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Allemagne Roßmann 24 August 2011

Not only science but mathematics is just an expression of poetry is evident from this creation yours here.Nice one and superb write.

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Patti Masterman 17 October 2009

As a math hater, I still fully enjoyed this. Adeline, you are to be commended for this..(smile)

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Lillian Thomas 30 September 2009

I love this clever piece of wit. Needs to be in some math books.

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Adi Cox 24 August 2009

There is an oxymoron in the title 'An Acutlely Obtuse Pythagorean Lyric'. I am assuming that this poem is referring to a^2 + b^2 = c^2 'To tell him why the triangle turned out to be a square.' Where the hypotenuse is c c = (a^2+b^2) ^(1/2) in this case the hypotinuse is the root I like poems about mathematics so I maybe bias and its a 10/10. Excellent.

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Shakti Shetty 25 February 2009

Adeline, you must be good with your math and geometry coz a poem like these can't be written by a math-hater! ! ! hilarious yet intriguing....

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James Timothy Jarrett 14 January 2009

A pun in poetic form. Apparently A few voters have been much harder on this little gem than they should have. I give this little crossover a ten

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Enoch John 22 December 2008

Hi Adeline, This poem turns math into a story.Excellent!

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Frank Cannon 10 June 2008

Almost Pi- fect. π .

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Instructor of poetry, Hagerstown, MD
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