Love – A Tetractys for National Poetry Month

Love
Lifts me
Beyond clouds
Brightens my soul
With you, possibilities are endless

Tetractys, a poetic form invented by Ray Stebbing, consists of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllables (total of 20).

“Euclid, the mathematician of classical times, considered the number series 1, 2, 3, 4 to have mystical significance because its sum is 10, so he dignified it with a name of its own – Tetractys.  The tetractys could be Britain’s answer to the haiku. Its challenge is to express a complete thought, profound or comic, witty or wise, within the narrow compass of twenty syllables.” – Ray Stebbing.

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About Sean King

Husband, Father, Writer, Philosopher, Humanitarian

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