Inverted Pyramid
- Russel Bash
- Mar 16, 2018
- 1 min read
I invented a poetry style of my own once that I called the "inverted pyramid". Each line has exactly one less word than the line before it. You can start with any number of words on the first line, but you have to work your way down to one word. It's an interesting challenge if you're into that sort of thing. This was my first one, and it still rings true today.
my mind has become a tangled web of intersecting lines. triangles, pyramids, squares, battle each other for my attention. they bounce around like over inflated tennis balls. bouncing, bouncing, sliding, colliding, until they break. new patterns emerge from their geometry. they glisten for a moment. shine forth with brilliance. then fade away. loose luster. disappear.
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