From my booklet, Mids
The Mids
- A new form of poetry based on line and number which draws from the shape and texture of ancient poems.
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As if history weren't enough, the landscape of poetry contains another marbled vein: what could be called "Mids". The dubbing draws from the unique form of these poems. Simply put, line one has one letter. Line two has two letters, and so forth. The "Mid" nomenclature derives from the word pyramid, whose etymological derivations from Greek and Latin indicate something loosely translated as "Fire In The Middle". Thus, the -mid root of the word.
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We as poets add to this willy-nilly a filter of Protoindoeuropean designation. For simplicity, I have chosen Latin, Greek or Slavic prefixes: one being represented by mono- , two being represented by duo-, &tc. Certainly license is taken as to how the sound of the resultant concatenation falls from poet's palette to paper's canvas. Indeed the poet’s instrument here is spryly honed. Content is of supreme importance, all the while balanced on the tightropes of letters iterating seriatim.
Thus, for whatever reason, the name "Monamid" sounds, at least to the author's ear, better than "Unamid"; this being a case of a Greek root sounding better. If one went though for example instead to Slavic roots, the designation would be something like "Odinnamid". The "Odin" or "One" prefix might end up completely transmogrifying the intended meaning of the word, for "Odin" of course was the name of a Norse god in the cosmogony of the ancients. In any case the name "Monamid" sounds better than the other candidates...
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