Conic Sections Poem by John Sensele

Conic sections and tonic inspirations traverse
Analytic geometry, fraternize telemetry and trek
Into the realm of Rene Descartes whose verse
Captured ferments that plant on modern man a puberty peck.

Conic sections in a unique locus birth circles
From equidistant points in a Cartesian plane and a fixed point
At the centre where minds find miracles and bicycles
That teach them to ingest and digest a mathematical joint.

Conic sections sliced parallel to a cone edge engender a parabola
Whose distances from a directrix and from a focus choose to equal
Reflecting the beauty and piety of minds which in several for a
Utilise parabolas in headlights and parabolic flights denigrated by an eagle.

Conic sections taught Copernicus the importance of the ellipse
As the orbit of celestial bodies and they gravitate and rotate
In the Milky Way in the universe for aeons and witness the collapse
Of Supernovas in dark matter with neither further ado nor debate.