Thursday, April 26, 2012

Area, Perimeter, Volume: A Poem

AREA, PERIMETER, VOLUME

Gardens and fences
and new tile floors,
towers of blocks
and a bulletin board border.

Perimeter says "RIM"
and area is flat,
volume takes space...
I know all of that,

but keeping them straight
in my head is a problem:
square? cubic? units?
perimeter? area? volume?

Some day I'll grow up
and need carpet and tile,
frame art and fill boxes...
THEN this will be worthwhile!


© Mary Lee Hahn, 2012


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's a great poem! Monika

Anonymous said...

That's a great poem!

Monika

Mrs. Goins said...

It's a great way to remember pe"rim" eter ; o )