Fano Plane Diagram |
May creates a poem by associating a word with each point of the Fano plane and then creates a three-line stanza for each line of the diagram. Here is a template for the poem "adore" -- and the poem itself is offered below the diagram:
Fano plane guide for the poem "adore" |
Although "adore" is not May's favorite of his Fano-plane poems, he has given me permission to present it here because its short lines enable us to easily see the Fano-plane structure. Enjoy:
adore by Dan May
we adore weather.
january silver sky
and leaves for the spring.
you adore these leaves --
red and yellow keys leaving
circles in the mud.
i adore the drone--
sounds in circles forever
sear my silver brain.
we adore the keys
to the dark drone overhead
opening our weather.
i adore all beats,
the word that leaves me apart,
a drone in a hive.
you adore silver
keys rattling on a chain.
listen -- your heart beats.
we adore circles.
we can weather it each time --
it never beats us.
Repeating words in successive stanza is familiar to many of us in the sestina; here is a link to a sestina about a Mobius strip posted earlier. And a blog-SEARCH (see box in right-hand column) can lead you to still other sestinas.
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