On Poetic Forms and the Value of Time
Poem #12 - Fun with Poetic Form Series
Go outside and find some clouds Scour them for hidden words If that's too hard, then find some letters ABCD - get the picture? Write them down, come back inside Open up the New York Times Find the Sunday puzzle Solve 14 down and 6 Across Take two letters of the former and three letters of the latter Write them down in backward order Add what you found in the sky Insert the letters in a pattern Each of them assigned a number Make sure each number is the sum of the two preceding ones Oh my stars, getting queasy? Fibonacci is not easy Now the challenge has begun These are the letters for your poem Hold the paper to a mirror Read aloud what you see there Grab a pen and write them down The title will be I'm a Clown Compose a poem with just those letters No, you cannot change the order When you're done send up a prayer Dear Lord, help me grow a pair Copyright ©️ 2024, David Angel, All Rights Reserved PoetNote - The Fibonacci sequence is a mathematical construct in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, .... More importantly, please don't take this seriously. I play with poetic forms all the time, but when it comes to the difficult ones, I'm lazy, so I pretend they have no value. In truth, trying out new poetic structures can produce some fun surprises and expand and deepen one's writing. Tip of the hat to Mike Speriosu's The Hill - Sestina #1
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I toss the hat into the air filled with cut out alphabet letters repeated and maybe for fun a small word or more just texture. Let the letters fall where they will and then she what they spell with my fingers doing the manipulation to find a poem of my liking.