Nostalgia and remembering another class at school, not Latin this time but maths. My interest in the Golden Mean came later of course and gave me the idea for;-
THE GOLDEN MEAN
Miss Hall, Deputy Head
Looming in blue and bifocal specs
Speaking of God and mathematics.
Taught us Pythagorus and his hypotenuse
but not his theory of creation and
the formula for
the shape of a face
the petals of flowers
the spirals of shells
our fingers and limbs,
who we will love and
who we will hate.
A formula whose ratio
was figured precisely
by Leonardo Fibonacci
who
after much thought
came up with the answer
one point six, one, eight, nought
When you think of a number remember Miss Hall
who knew that mathematics and God were the same
but didn't want to believe it.
