Buffet of Tetractys by richard lynn livesay

1. Stealth

2. Arcane

3. Deep Secrets

4. Mysticism

5x2 Transcendence above all understanding

You

Lovely

Your essence

Spreads love in flight

Resembling the moonbeams glow at night

Love

Embraced

Spirits joined

Together one

Spiraling outward like rays of the sun

Ship

Voyages

Over seas

Sails billowing

Black-hearted pirates looking for bounty

Art

Not real

Illusion

Artificial

But inspiring the world into greatness

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JOHN BECK Apr 10, 2012, 9:25pm UTC

Nicely done. Some references call for the second stanza to be inverted when a tetractys has more than one, but in this case each could stand alone.

Richard Lynn Livesay Apr 10, 2012, 9:37pm UTC

mmm something new...what do you mean inverted, John?

JOHN BECK Apr 10, 2012, 9:43pm UTC

Just a comment, not a criticism, Richard. The second stanza when there are two would be 10,4,3,2,1 instead of 1,2,3,4 10.

Richard Lynn Livesay Apr 10, 2012, 9:46pm UTC

ohhh yes i think it was AF stewart that did one and i didn't understand it then...thanks...think I'll do some that are related

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Granny Janny Apr 10, 2012, 9:30pm UTC

I'll take the love essence spread on the moon in the first class flight. And for dessert, transcendence above billowing artificial seas.

Granny Janny Apr 10, 2012, 9:30pm UTC

Mmmm. Delicious!

Richard Lynn Livesay Apr 10, 2012, 9:44pm UTC

we'll fix you a moonbeam buffet with sprinkles of chocolate starlight on the way...so don't delay...ha,ha some would think poets are crazy!

Kushal Poddar Apr 10, 2012, 10:08pm UTC

Ha.
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Richard Lynn Livesay Apr 10, 2012, 11:37pm UTC

ok, my fine poet...we are birds of a feather...you've just got a few more feathers...Ha

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Kingston Kaprinski Apr 10, 2012, 10:18pm UTC

Art
Not real
Borrowed lines
From Richard Lynn
Grand poet Livesay!

Irina Dimitric Apr 10, 2012, 10:45pm UTC

very clever...

Richard Lynn Livesay Apr 10, 2012, 11:40pm UTC

thank you, Kingston...I relish your poetic expertise and wit

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Irina Dimitric Apr 10, 2012, 10:47pm UTC

Love them all...your muse is holding you in her sweet embrace.

Richard Lynn Livesay Apr 10, 2012, 11:45pm UTC

ohhh, lately she has opened the akashic archives and I am taking dictation as fast as I can. I can only take a bow for her

is your icon a coo coo bird?

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wendy st. john-devereaux Apr 11, 2012, 9:09am UTC

grand thoughts...loved this so much!!!

blessings

Richard Lynn Livesay Apr 11, 2012, 11:58am UTC

Hello, Wendy, see your computer is holding up. thank you for the comment, glad you liked it.

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A. F. Stewart Apr 11, 2012, 11:13am UTC

A wonderful groups of poems.

Richard Lynn Livesay Apr 11, 2012, 11:59am UTC

appreciate the comment, AF

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