Clock Ticks On Mantle – A Tetractys

[Lisa Arnold]

Clock Ticks On Mantle – A Tetractys

soul
broken
black on red
solitaire game
clock ticks on mantle, he shuffles the deck


©2014 Lisa Arnold


this is my first Terractys poem...here is a link about this form Tetractys

[Brigid Briton]

Hi Lisa,

This is great. Yet another new form for us!

The Tetractys consists of 5 lines with 1,2,3,4, and 10 syllables respectively.

Here's what the creator of The Tetractys, Ray Stebbing had to say about them:

"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."

Thanks again, Lisa.

[Lisa Arnold]

thanks Brigid, I really appreciate the nice comment