Exhilrating Exile

I dwelt aloof on a battering banner

saw thy murmuring manners obscured from proof.

prickling trials of trailing crumbs

perfumed performance of glamorous root.

upheld against thy lonely, lonely lumbers

that vindictive yonder hosts hostile bump-

succumbing to thy endless chasms of prodigal verse

evil, charismatic cliches of ingenious proverb

I shall allow the notion of God to reside

for at proofless days I need thy creator beside

what unique beauty, dear mathematics, my friend or fiend,

defines thy cruel, incandescent riverside?

unceasing flows of adolescent insight

all lured by God to the interwoven bedside.

Mathematics is a young man’s game, still abide?

The crowd, brilliantly ludicrous, abides in all-y:

taken into exile our mortal plight

drawn in darkness the amorphous bride

thy shape, thy beauty, thy pattern plied

In exhilaration I explore, exiled by the holy countryside!

Sophie Germain

Note from poet:

this is an elegy to all wondrous teenage minds lost in search for mathematical truth.

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