Faceted Diamond

The poems that I have documented for this category  include

The Faceted Diamond         (three in one - formatted)   - This page

The Trigee and theCleave  (three in one)  

Amera's Style                        (2 in one - See Trick Poetry)

Multidirectional Sonnet     (2 in one)

Trick Poetry                           (four in one - OR many more)

• Faceted Diamond is a verse form that is probably as complicated to read as to write. It is an invented form found at Poetry Base and was invented by American poet Cory S Sylvester. Like the Cleave and the Trigee there are 3 poems in 1 but unlike the others, the reader may need clues to understand how to read the 3.
  The Faceted Diamond is:
• 3 poems in 15 lines.
• syllabic, 1-2-3-4-5-6--7-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. The even # lines break half way. (Poetry Base suggests the poem could be longer as long as it is an odd number of lines, but I am not going there. You can check with PB if you are curious.)
• unrhymed.
• centered on the page.
  x
  x -- x
  x x x
  x x -- x x
  x x x x x
  x x x -- x x x
  x x x x x x x
  x x x x -- x x x x
  x x x x x x x
  x x x -- x x x
  x x x x x
  x x -- x x
  x x x
  x -- x
  x
• The poem can be read in whole and...
• A second poem can be read by reading the odd numbered lines and the first half of the even numbered lines and ....
• A third poem can be read by reading the odd numbered lines and the second half of the even numbered lines. All 3 poems should make sense.

My Thanks to Judi Van Gorder of PoetryMagnumOpus for the above.

Example Poem

Only I     (Faceted Diamond)

Wait

my dear

lovely one

can you pause and

observe men that stare

openly without shame

wishing it were they, not me

tending to you, taking you home,

and ending the evening

in your arms, kissing you.

and all of the time

I know they know

they can't have

my dream

love.

© Lawrencealot - September 23, 2013

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