Seduction

I

practise

the art of

seduction by

fluttering my lashes coyly at you

My hair veils my face from your ardent gaze

or so I think

I look up

You are

gone

I 

guess I

should keep on

trying, though it 

does not come as naturally to me as sharp 

words that roll off my tongue. Sarcasm is

spicily brewed,

my perfect

cup of

tea

This is a tetractys poem.

“Tetractys should express a complete thought, profound or comic, witty or wise using 20 syllables. They can be written with more than one verse but each subsequent verse must invert the syllable count. There is no limit to the number of verses. The structure is: 

line 1 - 1 syllable

line 2 - 2 syllables

line 3 - 3 syllables

line 4 - 4 syllables

line 5 - 10 syllables”


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