I am delighted to have three TextArt pieces in the latest edition of Ranger Magazine, and to have one of these used as the cover for this Issue #3 – my thanks to editor David A. Bishop.

You can see the poems here: https://www.rangermagazine.net/issue3

This Division List Poem is the final of four elementary mathematical operations of arithmetic (to use the accurate terminology). It is also the final of my four creative explorations of these fundamentals.

As I said in yesterday’s posting of multiplication, this list poem is less literal and more in the spirit of what such a form should be.

I still haven’t decided whether to tackle quadratic equations…

This is the third of the four arithmetic operations for which I have produced a list poem: division is tomorrow.

I have always worked as a writer to sequences, either of a type (here, list poem) or themes. It becomes obsessional, or more positively, a creative impulse to pursue.

This multiplying list poem adheres more to its artithmetical roots than tomorrow’s dividing – the latter prompting a broader range of ideas.

…in this sequence. I’d written the ‘Adding List Poem’ in yesterday’s posting as a submission for an educational theme and anthology publication, thus the direction towards students/young writers (as a teacher I always found list poems a superb idea/structure/support for encouraging creative writing).

The poem wasn’t taken, and thus yesterday’s posting of it to share all the same. And as I said then, this prompted me to write a ‘Subtracting List Poem’ which follows. Any arithmetical references – correct or awry – are from research rather than my Maths CSE Grade 4 shallow aptitude, though this could have fueled the less secure (but I always, in any case, take comfortable refuge in poetic licence):

Love a list poem, this is my latest – the kind of content and ideas I would like to introduce to students for writing their own:

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My thanks to IT and Rupert for posting my poem today.

You can read it here: https://internationaltimes.it/multitudinous/

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Another interminable, apocalyptic waiting…