The poem
The Poem = (The Page)(Stillness) ⁄ Listening
The value of the poem is to the value of the page as the value of stillness is to the value of listening.
The same poem, solved four ways
A similar triangles poem is a proportion, a ⁄ b = d ⁄ e, and a proportion can be rearranged without changing what it claims. Each arrangement is a separate poem and all four say the same thing.
- The Poem = (The Page)(Stillness) ⁄ Listening
- The Page = (The Poem)(Listening) ⁄ Stillness
- Stillness = (Listening)(The Poem) ⁄ The Page
- Listening = (Stillness)(The Page) ⁄ The Poem