My Poetry

a rerun of an experiment from Dec 12, 2023

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Note:

The experiment and the form of this poem from last December relate to the I Ching. I consulted it on the question of my poetry (which itself is a sort of experiment) and then turned the two resulting "hexagrams" (in the lingo of I Ching divination) into the two hexagrams here (six-line stanzas) with the syllable count of each line derived from the numerical values (6, 7, 8, or 9) that relate to the yin and yang lines of the I Ching. The experiment also relates to reading a poem from the bottom up (as the I Ching's hexagrams are formulated) and also whether any of this mumbo jumbo is a valid way to write a poem.

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