“Poetry has the power to breathe life into mathematical concepts, making them more relatable and captivating”. [source]

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And here we are too on the first of May, a month that is made for poetry and so we begin with an extract of Tess Taylor’s “May Day”:-

“They go, the early flags, the gory maples—
so too the daffodils & Lenten roses. 
Other petals swirl & nights warm. 

Buds thicken and cast shadows: 
in a thunderstorm 
I almost forget the ice that was….”[more]

And ‘the First’ is of course a wellspring for memories and poetry, as in this extract of StaceyAnn Chin’s “First Green”:-

“...open windows and summer 
approaching 
ominous air-marked with the first green 

leaf 
over-turned poems 
forgotten 
mouths tinkling humor 

pages rustling...” [more]

For today’s MTB prompt our poetry follows the style of The Alliterisen, created by Udit Bhatia. It is a 7-line poem (septet) containing a set number of alliterations per line and adhering to a specific syllable structure.

Alliterisen poems can be either complex or rhyming. Choose either one.

1. Poetry formulae for Complex Alliterisen:-

• a 7 line poem
• 2 alliterations on every line
• choose a syllabic count of 7 or more thus:

• 1st line- x syllables [e.g. 7]
• 2nd line- x+2 syllables [e.g. 9]
• 3rd line- x-1 syllables [e.g. 6]
• 4th line- (x+2)-1 syllables [e.g. 8]
• 5th line- x-2 syllables [e.g. 5]
• 6th line- (x+2)-2 syllables [e.g. 7]
• 7th line- x syllables [e.g. 7]

2. Poetry formulae for Rhyming Alliterisen;

• a 7 line poem
• 1 alliteration in every line
• 7 syllables per line
• rhyme scheme as follows: aabbccd

Poem Options:

• you can write 1 or more 7 line verses in one of the above styles
• there are no subject restrictions but May, the first time of something, or even anything mathematical would make a good fit for this prompt.

So once you have posted your poem according to the guidelines above, do add it to Mr Linky below then go visiting and reading other contributors as that is half the fun of our dVerse gatherings. Please also TAG dVerse in your post, or include a link at the end of your poem that leads readers back to the prompt.

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