*pacific Trash Vortex (Triple Tetractys) Poem by Marieta Maglas

The rules for writing a Tetractys are as follows:
Line 1 is one syllable syllable
A segment of speech usually consists of a vowel with or without accompanying
consonant sounds (e.g., a, I, out, too, cap, snap, check) . A syllabic consonant,
like the final n sound in button and widen, also constitutes a syllable.
line 2 is two syllables; line 3 is three syllables; line 4 is four syllables;
and line 5, is ten syllables.
The fourth and fifth lines may rhyme or rhyme, the most prominent of the
literary artifices used in versification. Although it was used in ancient East
Asian poetry and rhyme were practically unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
But this is not mandatory.

Waste
Sea green
Wavering
In slimy traps
In woozy circles
Gushing at the deep water horizon


Melody still rooting for bluesy rock
Gloppy red icing
Crooked letters
Violet
Colored
Dream


Fish
Yellow
Flimsy boats
Lanky white man
Muzzy from the work
Cloudy indigo hanging around all.

Poem by Marieta Maglas