#sum poems on Hello Poetry

Left Foot Poet 7d

If there was no: Sun, Blue Skies, Rain & Greenery, then

of what would we write?
of ourselves,
of/to
each other,
would that be sufficient?

cannot imagine the
absence of these essences?

that reassures
our places in the universe,
gifts to us each,
to preach hallelujah

rue that day,
and your only choice
of smiling or crying,
or both,
for the world’s clothing
is an invitation to
begin creating

#lfp #sum #greenery #rain

Man Jun 2023

Chappaquiddick

Cogito, ergo sum
But what do I think?
And what, pray tell,
What effect does this have
On my being?
If what I constitute
Is alone, based on action,
Based on thought
What can we say of man today?

#cogito #ergo #sum #think #act #pray #effect #being #constitute #thought

Nat Lipstadt Oct 2020

Je pense, donc je suis / Cogito, ergo sum / Conundrum

I think, therefore I am.

(5) the possible poems lurk about, here a title,
there a verse without a home, and, despite
cogitating brings no fusion, no unity or home
heading, where the sigh of conjoining both
brings mental *******, organic relief, worth.

(6) the temperature now cool regularity, enough that
a distinctive line crossed, setting from Cool to Heat,
an inflection point of persona, weather, aging,
daytime whispers can no long be avoided,
a choral crescendo, delayed by lazy summer illusions
that permitted us to put off abnormal life as normal.

(7) I think, therefore I am, but I do not feel,
sufficiently, therefore I write a title here,
verse there, but no poem completes because,
as I update my list of people I worry about, I am,
ineffectively yours, lacking answers for you, in all
our present tenses, some of you are on it, even if no notification
sent, selfishly pondering if my name appears on someones list

ah, these miscarriages of miscellaneous mumbles don’t
qualify as worthwhile, so I pre-apologize for wasting your time
trying, pushing myself to go from thinking, of you, so, therefore
you exist, but if I cannot give you the feelings deserved, then,
what good am I?

conundrum.

11:26 AM Sat Oct 10
2020

#je #pense #donc #suis #cogito #ergo #sum #lipstadt #conundrum

TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jan 2020

APHORISM XXXII

APHORISM XXXII

If you add all the numbers in infinity, the sum will be 1.

Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks

A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He recently finished his novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.

#the #sum #of #infinity

veritas Feb 2019

zero sum game

like those moments in harmony
when i say "you drive" and
you say "i drive"
and the universe
   concurs that the
one of us
will tip our head back and
   the other one
of us will clench the wheel--
wherein both parties reap the
spoils of our little zero-sum game
because i get to leave the ground
   "don't stop"
kicking up gravel with the heels of the rubber and
you get to feel the earth
"let me go"
leaving acrid smoke and burning metal
   and then, there, that somewhere in the middle i win and you win and the windows close us back up against the cold whiplash
   of sand and air
   and the sums cancel out like they
   always, always have.

two people in a car

#zero #sum #game

Poetic T Jan 2019

A Sum Of Parts

I'm an equation
      that no one added up to.

But you where one
that multiplied the meaning
            of what it was to love.

Never taking way from life,
             you where my equal.

We where a sum of parts
            that made sense.

#maths #love #life #sum

Caloris Nov 2018

Trinity

I learn, therefore I have been.
I think, therefore I am.
I believe, therefore I will be.

This is a sandwich of René Descartes' "ego cogito, ergo sum".

#future #present #past #cogito #ergo #sum

alexa Apr 2018

"write about a favorite quote"

the first time i heard the words
"greater than the sum of its parts"
my mind drifted to you, of course
because of your shattered soul and misplaced mind
always too much or not enough
of everything.
but soon the branches starting
tap tap tapping
at my window, owls waking me up
to whisper your secrets in my ears.
the first time you looked at me with your cerulean eyes
and made me a promise you soon broke,
i eagerly forgave you,
for i could not resist the sugar trickling off your words.
then it happened a second time, a third
a fourth
a fifth
and now, i can't remember what it's like for you to
actually make promises you'll keep.
the owls visited me last night and
with their words, it was the first time i thought that
maybe your whole is
less than the sum of your parts.

love this quote "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
also experimenting with different writing prompts which is why some of my titles are like this

#quote #greater #sum #parts #you #me #us #love #hurting

matthew scott harris Mar 2018

4 shore n 7 sand bars ago

this former guttersnipe doth harbor no ill will
while lain in the gutter of this conventional ville
where some insomniacs take nigh quill
your plea 4 money, but a confession
   that my life like a bitter pill
shape n size like n opal battling uphill

monetary resources nil
yet surges of imaginative days with hew fill
me jet throw toll aqua lung gill
lug gin islands n tandem with my mind till
death dew eye part, but social security disability
   just barely amp pull - this no pitiful poetic swill.

at this juncture
   my self confidence fuels me with greater skill
2 take risks, such as reach out n smooth over
   ruffled n ridged feathers emanating
   from sputter ring unthinkingly sans my virtual quill
i.e. emails n such prods awareness
   2 maximize opportunities that could fill

a void - specifically a marriage bereft of compatibility -
   n figuratively i jumped in2 this drama OUT of desperation
   years ago when hot n ***** pangs would not chill
plus my then living mother n now octogenarian
   widower father raged against me, their sole
   soul less son, who daily they did flip their grill.

#*** #sum #matt #erring #of #****