Inspired Poetry

[kb83]

Another self-promotion, a limerick I had forgotten about. I added line breaks. There were some fun comments too, but I have not included them.

"Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. "
— Isaac Newton

kb83
January 3, 2026, 1:43 pm
Each body continues its course
Unless it is changed by a force,
And when it's at rest,
(Unless it's impressed),
It's lazy and shows no remorse.

[Eureka]

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." — Simonides

Barnabas
April 3, 2018, 2:52 pm
The house for sale, needing paint.
The owner well practiced in restraint.
"If I paint I can show it".
Said the lazy poet.
And the thought of it all made him faint.

[kb83]

I just got this one today, and was inspired to another limerick.

"The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them."

— Jacob Bronowski

And when a poem IS a theorem, it's really great!

An angle not sharp nor obtuse,
A triangle's sides, does conduce
To sum up its squares
(Though quite unawares)
To the square of the hypotenuse.

[LLapp]

Kb83 - That's magnificent! And, if I'm understanding it right, should "its" be "their" -- referring to "sides"?

[kb83]

It should indeed be "their"! Llapp, if a book ever comes about, I definitely need you as my editor. You've already improved numerous efforts of mine.

[LLapp]

Kb83, that would be delightful.

[LLapp]

The comment from blueladyblue is so poetic that I broke it into lines.
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"Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness." — Friedrich Nietzsche

maradnu
October 17, 2016, 3:32 pm
We have lots of little lizards in Florida. I like them. They get in my house occasionally, but do no damage.

kb83
June 28, 2017, 3:50 am
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and lizards rustling.

lertsek
April 12, 2018, 12:22 pm
I picture a monitor lizard, tearing a goat apart.

abra
December 30, 2018, 7:01 pm
I don't like lizards. Once when we lived in Mississippi, an Anole got in our house and a neighbor came and swept it out with a broom. I was pretty young then. Today I'd sweep it out by myself ) . I did see a really pretty colored one once in Oklahoma, but it was big. Someone would have had to sweep it out for me. It might have been a Mountain Boomer, but there were a lot of snakes in the lizard pictures so I quit looking.

marnita
November 20, 2020, 9:58 pm
I lived in the Panama Canal Zone for a while when I was young. There were a lot of iguanas there - very nice lizards, some of them quite large.

blueladyblue
May 4, 2022, 11:02 pm
Aw c'mon, guys.

Who doesn't like
a walk in the woods,
and you hear a soft rustling
sound in the grass and leaves?

You slow down,
cautious about
what creature might
jump roaring from the shadows,
aiming for your throat.

Then, it happens.
A lizard pokes through,
more afraid of you than
you of the horrors you imagined.

Happened to me today, actually,
while walking Discovery Lake
with a couple of friends.
Chills.