you
wonder
why I like
to write about
vampires and all that sort of nonsense.
some vampires drain joy rather than blood.
I am a fool
wasting time
in your
lair.
notes
Today's prompt gives me an opportunity to tell off a shitty ex-boyfriend (sadly, I have far too many of those) who fancied himself a true artiste and scoffed at my pedestrian tastes.
https://experiencewriting.com/2023/10/16/oct-16-prompts-sexy-blood-suckers/
Interestingly, this guy was apparently a descendant from the line of Dracula. The Romanian prince, not the fictional character. Sure, he could have just been saying that, but he did have a mild case of porphyria, so who knows.
The form is a tetratata...tatatetra..tecerata...oh, hell, I'm just going to cut and paste from the website.
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/tetractys.html
Tetractys, a poetic form invented by Ray Stebbing, consists of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllables (total of 20). Tetractys can be written with more than one verse, but must follow suit with an inverted syllable count. Tetractys can also bereversed and written 10, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Double Tetractys: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1
Triple Tetractys: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10
and so on.
~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~
