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I did a sestina, it was NOT easy.

@kevinhogan.bsky.social Sep 13, 2026, 11:36 AM

New #poem up #Poetry #PoetrySky #FormPoem #Sestina

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@sonnetsmith.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 9:06 AM

And since #SomethingEveryday today is #numbers I thought I'd share this here #sestina I wrote whilst teaching Maths to secondary school kids...

#maths #poetry #poem #amwriting #blueskypoetry

$One of life's most important skills Is finding the hypotenuse of a triangle, Using Pythagoras to define X. The sum of the square; barrage of numbers As decimals, digits, or fractions; All for the purpose of nothing. Complex maths means nothing To those who never use those skills; Anything past basic fractions, Or how many sides make a triangle Is pointless, to those for whom X Will never be used as a number. And though it's cool that any number Multiplied by zero is nothing; Defining the value of X Is a valueless skill For those outside of finance, fractions, Or reinventing the triangle. I'm sick of seeing Triangles; Hypotenuse of mystery numbers, What's the point of simplifying fractions When google will do it for nothing On those rare times you need the skill; Hey Alexa, three X is twelve, what's X? If the number of fucks I have is X; (Especially pertaining to triangles,) It doesn't take a lot of skill To work out that any number Multiplied by X would be nothing, Not even worth writing as a fraction. Who even needs to use fractions? Except for dividing pizzas by X; (X is four; you can't divide by nothing,) And cutting it to perfect triangles Befitting whatever number. Cutting pizzas; Now that's a useful skill. Maths is full of skills; you only use a fraction. I don't care what number you give to X, And triangles are good for almost nothing$