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he heart not shuttering but shattering to</i></p><p id="99a8"><i>full catastrophe ever changing never get used to</i></p><p id="5ac4"><i>gravity, rising obstinately from descent to</i></p><p id="eb21"><i>deeply rooted resistance (to)</i></p><p id="800e">(and so on)</p><p id="fdd1">This poem was originally published in 2018 in <i>Through Silence and Ash </i>available at amazon.</p><p id="fe8c">Some of my other poems playing with form and style:</p><div id="5895" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/found-in-the-moment-576e7a280fc1"> <div> <div> <h2>Found in the Moment</h2> <div><h3>If you don’t lose yourself — you will find yourself</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*7jX-mWOYT9_iTFjR_S2R3A.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="81c6" class="link-block">

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A Poem That Defies Gravity

Note to Reader: Read the instructional note in the image above and then read the poem in the image for the full effect of what I was trying to accomplish. In this poetic form, I am playing not only with words but with geometry and physics. The whole, I hope, is a poetic dance. Opa!

If written in the traditional manner it would go like this:

deeply rooted resistance to

gravity, rising obstinately from descent to

full catastrophe ever changing never get used to

a life fully lived heaven grasping through the heart not shuttering but shattering to

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(then one could continue)

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a life fully lived heaven grasping through the heart not shuttering but shattering to

full catastrophe ever changing never get used to

gravity, rising obstinately from descent to

deeply rooted resistance (to)

(and so on)

This poem was originally published in 2018 in Through Silence and Ash available at amazon.