Her Ombre of Originality [Double Tetractys]

by Poet on the Piano   Jul 13, 2012


Grace
ensuing,
dark-to-light
silken hair wreathes-
illimitable chesnut locks turn gold.
Her set eyes exposed by love's artistry,
olive legs hushed,
beholding
her spouse
trace.

Double Tetractys: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1.

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  • 12 years ago

    by Melpomene

    MaryAnne,*

    I was excited when browsing through your list to come across the form tetractys. Personally I love the form and I've been meaning to write some for a while now but I haven't had the chance. I'm used to reading long poems from you so it has been interesting to read something short and refreshing.

    You have some excellent descriptions, you always do but to be honest they were more appealing in your short poems simply because I get carried away reading the stories in your longer pieces (not a bad thing) you're a really lovely story teller but I like the strong images you portrayed here. Even simple things such as dark-to-light, that was lovely.

    I'm curious though, who is it you're describing? Is it fiction? From what I gathered of this poem it's about child birth and the beauty of a child being born representing two people and representing love.

    "olive legs hushed"

    ^ Particularly liked this; Unique way to describe legs.

    -Mel

    • 12 years ago

      by Poet on the Piano

      Mel, I love your comment, I appreciate all your thoughts on it, it helped a lot! I think I've done this poetry form before but I know you like forms too! This was fiction, I was looking at hair styles and saw that the hair color ombre was really popular, like a woman wore her hair dark brown than at the ends was blonde- so I wrote based on a woman with her long hair shining from the sun, posing for her husband to sketch her. I just saw that in my mind, lots of poise!

      Thanks again :]

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