So, Mish, at dVerse Poets had an idea this week to get poetic about numbers, of which you can find the explanation here.
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The Mathematic
The Mathematic turned to poetry
beauty up his numbered dull
with colorful thoughts
or ugly pretty found bursts
of emotion and sight
till he saw poets could count
emotions in rules
and breaths even, if they wished them just right
.
He wondered to witches
calling earth and then sky
and all in betwixt … us
unseen to our eye
for wardings and cures from curses and threats
till he saw difference … in
amount’s pinch or drop’s intent
could be worried life or harbingers of death
.
He examined too, to priests
held in such lofty regard
that he envied not bound
to explain earthly fears
more instead some grand prescience beyond
no greater the bard
but also one to sing in sequential verses
spoke in congregated number feared curses
.
He thought, then, I too, count
but just so in stars
making maps as guides for their rides cross the sky
taking us in their own prettied word silence wind
above our footed clay
healing worries of our bound
or maybe, in those heavens
I too have numbers profound
and the Mathematic
found himself
unalone
Frankenberry's Attic 
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