We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)
Showing posts with label tetractys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tetractys. Show all posts

10.6.18

When?

(Trying the Tetractys)


When?

When 
– never? –
will you feel
my eyes on you,
see my hands reaching before I can stop?

How can you remain always unaware?
I want you to
tell me of
lightning
now.

(Want
that you
know lightning.)
But I suppose
you are just someone who likes the quiet.


In Fussy Little Forms at 'imaginary garden with real toads' today, Marian invites us to attempt the tetractys. Mine's a triple tetractys (the idea being that one reverses the form with each new verse).