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Apparently the Tetractys was invented by Ray Stebbing, and the challenge is to write a poem in twenty syllables over five lines, that follows the pattern 1,2,3,4,10. There is also the Double Tetractys, which have 40 syllables over 10 lines, going 1,2,3,4,10,10,4,3,2,1!
I had a bash at both…
In
the stead
of goodbye:
I refuse truth.
You’re still here if I say that you aren’t gone…
Then the double:
I
pummel
the air and
think bad thoughts cos
inside I am a frustrated small child.
But I also have a real one of those
who shouts right back
so I don’t
escape
whole.
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