#rational poems on Hello Poetry

Michael Done Nov 26

THEOREM: √2 is not a rational number

ASSUME: √2 is a rational number
i.e. √2 = X/Y where X, Y are integers with no common factors    (1)
      (cos by definition that what it means to be a rational number)

==> (√2)^2 = (X/Y)^2    (2)  (by squaring (^) each side)
==> 2 = X^2/Y^2    (3)  (by multiplying everything out)
==> 2Y^2 = X^2    (4)  (by multiplying both sides by Y^2)
==> X^2 = 2Y^2    (5)  (by reversing the equation)
==> X^2 is even    (6)  (cos 2 times anything is even)
==> X is even    (7)  (cos if X it were odd, X^2 would be odd)
==> X = 2P where P is some other positive integer     (8)
       (cos by definition that’s what it means for X to be even)
(4) and (8) ==> 2Y^2 = (2P)^2    (9)  (by substituting for X)
==> 2Y^2 = 4P^2    (10)  (by multiplying everything out)
==> Y^2 = 2P^2    (11)  (by dividing both sides by 2)
==> Y^2 is even    (12)  (cos 2 times anything is even)
==> Y is even    (13)  (cos if Y it were odd, Y^2 would be odd)
==> Y = 2Q where Q is some other positive integer     (14)
       (cos by definition that’s what it means for Y to be even)
(1), (8) and (14) ==> X/Y = 2P/2Q  (17)  (by substituting for X and Y)
==> X and Y have a common factor of 2  (18)  (cos we can see the 2’s)
==> The assumption at (1) is false  (19)
       (cos it says: “X, Y are integers with no common factors”)
==> √2 is NOT rational
Q.E.D

POETRY!

#poetry #mathematics #square #root #rational #irrational

Jeremy Betts Mar 3

~•§•~ Condition Critical ~•§•~

I can feel every eye roll
And all I did was pour out what was left of my soul
Looks like I might be the only one to see it from that angle
Like it's painful
I brush it off and project as being humble
Really I'm only diminishing what makes me emotional
It's just standard business as usual
A series of unfortunate events themed carousel
The victim blaming has become so casual
That I somehow become the spectacle
Put a screen between us and then I bet they'd care though
Convinced themselves I'm some kind of animal
Chomping at the bit, waiting to say "I told you so"
Waiting for said moment from the get go
Was it always the plan to poke at the volcano?
The saying only mentions a bear, though the volcano makes it more...what's the word...I don't know, disasterful...
That's not a word but that's what came to mind cause the mind isn't always rational
Whatever, anyway, on a long enough timeline you're bound to get burnt, we're all flammable
A majority of us are expendable
Not essential even if dependable
Reluctantly invited to the annual shiit show
The HUD flashes on arrival
"WARNING WARNING, CONDITION CRITICAL!"
But we've been lied to before, for example
Take a look at religion and the political
What's actual?
What's factual?
And what's just another game by Hasbro?
What are you looking at me for? I don't fuuckin' know
Try tying it to a white flag and running it up the flagpole

©2024

#soul #painful #humble #rational #usual #animal #casual #burnt #expendable #critical

Man Jul 2023

Onyx and Alabaster

Persons who, not agreeing with you,
Will tell you, your perspective is wrong.
That lived experience,
Has clouded your lense of reality.
But they offer no real difference
Nothing so substantive
As to say,
Mine is fixed
And based in a place
Of true, unbiased rationality.

#perspective #existential #contemporary #rational #substantive #reality #experience #clouded

Man Jun 2023

Life, 360°

Where is the break in our dark,
Where is illumination?
Vis-à-vis, a rational light.
For the contrast is stark
Between those who laze
And those who fight

Real values, and genuine ideals
Beliefs, not steeped, in a false virtue
And causes and movements, the same.
Do they still remain?
In the classes, in the fields,
At home? Never feeling near.

Where is the change?

#illumination #change #rational #contrast #stark #laze #fight #values #ideals #virtue

Anais Vionet Apr 2023

veneers

Rational men among us state plainly
- that no ghosts walk among us.
But they haven’t really searched the shadows,
or smelled the sweet musk-roses you wore
when windchimes twinkle like your laugh.

If ghosts haunt, then spirits linger.
If ghosts bedevil and terrorize,
spirits hangout, abide and remain.
Time is as nothing to them,
they are now and they are then.
We are shadows, that are becoming
shadows, that were shadows before.

Rational men know what they see,
but they’re dull and though waking,
remain unaware that lemures tamper,
with impressions, subconscious voices
and barely perceptible shenanigans,
across death’s thin, permeable veneer.

BLT Marriam Webster word of the day challenge: Shenanigans: devious tricks

Lemures = From Roman mythology: spirits who become involved with the living.

#ghosts #spirits #rational #shadows

Man Mar 2021

Black Coffee And Sugarless Things

and i fear when seasons
and anything in particular
changes
its rooted far from rational explanation
reason removed, because i know
change is good
and those things that come with it
i know, i know
twelve thousand fold
for how long have i been told
fearing of change
is folly
when life is change
odd and strange
as paintings by dali

#seasons #fear #rational #explanation #reason #removed #change #good #twelve #thousand

Hammad Dec 2020

Love is Magical

We often seek love
with mind and logic
not knowing
that in its world
It lets us walk
on water,
It lets us see
the rainbows
in pitch-black darkness,
It takes us
to the moon and back
It fills the void
In our souls,
It lets us plant
the seeds of hope
In barren lands
Don't you see?
Nothing in this is rational
My Dear!
Everything in Love,
and its world is Magical...

#love #magical #rational

Juliette Messervy Nov 2020

Irrational

It’s the least of my worries
Taxing my car
Or saving up for a house
Or remembering that thing
I was supposed to remember
Or anything really
Or passing that test
Getting into that school
Acing that interview
Getting that job
That pays enough
That allows me to progress
Progress?

I hadn’t even thought about that.
I hadn’t thought about any of it.

I think
about one thing
I obsess
I compulse
Or do I?
Is what I do when I
Think about that thing
I always think about
A compulsion?
Because if it’s not then
Can it be called
OCD?
And if it’s not
That means it’s me
And the thing I always think
About
is true

I know it’s irrational
But what if it’s not?
Maybe it just makes me feel better
To think that it is

See, who has time for rational worries
When you’re so full up with
Irrational one’s?

A poem about my struggles with OCD

#ocd #ocdawareness #mentalhealthawareness #worries #anxiety #mind #rational #irrational #doubt #thinking

Tony Tweedy May 2020

Learning by Chance (edited)

Sometimes I feel the darkness
as it draws itself yet oh so near.
Shrouds of blackest pitch,
Like a shiver of the spine,
caused by a scream I feel but do not hear.

All pervasive gloom
that shrouds my world to never ending black.
Dragging down both soul and sense,
Like a craven remorseless killer
intent on demonic inhuman attack.

I feel it in my body and I sense it
as it encroaches on my mind.
Taking both warmth and light,
Leaving never ending blackness,
devoid of hope of any kind.

At times the will to fight
has been totally taken away.
Rational mind and tired limbs,
Made to give up all reason
to stand and fight for one more day.

I sense an endless wave that drowns me
in utter dark despair.
Kicking through all defence,
Until all will to live yet one more moment,
evaporates into thin air.

The fight is ever daily
and the waves they come and go.
Random depths to which I fall,
How I survive amidst the darkest waves,
I really do not know.

In days gone by the waves have compelled me
to physically react.
More than one failed attempt,
Still I yet remain by fluke,
compounded by the lessons that I lacked.

I know that I have learned
and can push all normal fears aside.
In life we learn from failures,
And it is chance and not hope,
keeps me safe where I now hide.

How can you unlearn such a thing? It is always known... hiding... waiting.

#despair #darkness #knowledge #fear #rational #insanity #end #ending #low #dark