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Cold as Ice Tetractys

Title: Cold as Ice Tetractys

Begin Poem

Cold
As ice
Winter's blast
Polar vortex
Climate change runs amuck, brutal cold's grasp


End Poem

Criteria


The is a five-line stanza with twenty syllables invented by Ray Stebbing. The structure consists of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllables, and the challenge is to express a complete thought within the range of twenty syllables, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/1188-haiku-wannabees/#tetractys\

Tetractys is an internet form claiming to be "Britain's answer to the haiku." Ray Stebbing at Shadow Poetry. "Tetractys" is defined by its name. The name given by classical Greek mathematician, Euclid, to his contention that the number series 1,2,3,4 has mystical significance because its sum is 10. The elements of the Tetractys are:
1. a pentastich, a complete poem in a 5 lines.
2. syllabic, with a progressive syllable count 1-2-3-4-10 per line.
3. sometimes written as a Double Tetractys(2 quintains), when doubled the syllabic pattern is reversed, 1-2-3-4-10-10-4-3-2-1.
4. sometimes it is stanzaic, written in any number of quintains.
5. when written in multiple stanzas the syllabic pattern is a Mirrored Tetractys syllables per line 1-2-3-4-10 10-4-3-2-1 1-2-3-4-10 10-4-3-2-1 etc….
6. unrhymed.
Example
7.

Sleep
dormant
renewal.
Recovery,
under rated necessity of life.
Judi Van Gorder