SQUARES AND CIRCLES
Ceramic plates in Cappadocia, Turkey, June 4, 2024
Church in Athens, June 15, 2024
Pride Festival, Athens, Greece, June 15, 2024
The square plays with circles
And likes it very much
The circles love him too
For his corners and as such
After many days of playing
The circles call him home
The square is so delighted
As though he’s off to Rome!
He reaches circles’ house
With a bunch of lovely flowers
But finds he cannot enter
Without supernatural powers!
The door is so, so round
And he so very square
What mismatch of dimensions
Can’t even enter the foyer!
He bends, and rolls and turns a ton
Poor square is very sad
He is out, his friends are in
It makes him really mad
“Best to cut your corners, square”
The circles tell their friend
“But that will hurt me way too much
And my own shape will end!”
The circles are dismayed
They don’t know what to do
They talk and talk and talk
And wish they knew voodoo
Then suddenly, it strikes them –
The door is out of range!
Oh why didn’t they think of this?
Their friend must not change!
So they chip out four corners
Now square can make it in
Everybody squeals with joy
My goodness, what a din!
- December 31, 2025
Realization
Do you think I know what I am doing!
For a breath I know
For another I don’t!
A pen knows not what it is writing
A ball in the hands of a child can’t guess
Where it’s going next
At times I am the pen, the ball
At others, the hands that hold them!
The Wanaka Tree, New Zealand, July 10, 2025
The door is so, so round
And he so very square
What mismatch of dimensions
Can’t even enter the foyer!
He bends, and rolls and turns a ton
Poor square is very sad
He is out, his friends are in
It makes him really mad
“Best to cut your corners, square”
The circles tell their friend
“But that will hurt me way too much
And my own shape will end!”
Church in Athens, June 15, 2024
The circles are dismayed
They don’t know what to do
They talk and talk and talk
And wish they knew voodoo
Then suddenly, it strikes them –
The door is out of range!
Oh why didn’t they think of this?
Their friend must not change!
So they chip out four corners
Now square can make it in
Everybody squeals with joy
My goodness, what a din!
Written- 2014
Uploaded- October 20, 2025
Pride Festival, Athens, Greece, June 15, 2024