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# Abstract
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- Published: 2023-11-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Is math abstract? The beauty of a spiral, when captured in a sluggish mollusk's shell? A dandelion picture going viral, a ladybug that's resting for a spell on leaves designed by unrelenting fractals to gobble sunshin...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Is math abstract? The beauty of a spiral,  
when captured in a sluggish mollusk's shell?  
A dandelion picture going viral,  
a ladybug that's resting for a spell  
on leaves designed by unrelenting fractals  
to gobble sunshine up. Though it's no bird,  
nor relative of ancient pterodactyls,  
Bernoulli is a name she's never heard,  
she nonetheless can fly as though the ether,  
(replace it by a boffin's quantum foam),  
can lift her as she soars, the land beneath her  
a temporary respite, not a home.  
An elegant equation tells the tale.  
A ladybug, a flower, and a snail.