> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sah'ot's Poetic Form
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> The civilian poet anthropologist. The dolphin
> civilian poet anthropologist....
> ....He can't write dolphin poetry--that'd be too
> revealing.
> So he has to invent a new form of poetry....
> ....Holo-cubism.
> If you place yourself inside of the holocube, you
> can read six
> poems on the cubes six faces. Say six haiku of 5,7,5
> syllables.
>
> If the observer spacially stays still and the cube
> rotates, the lines change
> and you get six new poems. But not using any new
> text!
>
> Maybe a word from the third line now appears on the
> first line. Maybe a world
> flips upon the face of the cube and "saw" becomes
> "was."
>....Now step outside of the cube and look through two
> faces at the same time. The
> words on both the close and far face flip so that
> they can be read You're
> looking directly through the near and far face to
> read a single _double_ haiku of
> 10, 14, and 10 syllables.
>...And if you stand the cube on an edge, you have
four
> faces to look at. You
> actually wind up reading a single poem of six lines
> of 10, 14, 10. 10, 14, and 10 syllables.
>....That's seventy-two poems in all.
>
> All from six haiku...
You could have the audience participate too, in a
beatnik sort of way - "Wow, that's *happenin'*
man!...Groovy!"
Debbi
Sunlight Through Snowfall
Hummingbirds Shimmer And Swoop
Iced Fire, Living Gems (Maru)
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