Year
Three by three,
the face of
a Rubik’s
Cube of six
facial planes
each unique
colored plain
red, green, blue
orange, yellow
white a fright
when you try
untangling
forty-three
quintillion
possible
positions
but still I
prefer sex
Written for dVersePoet's prompt on 4/12/12. Actually, it's my guess for the prompt based on reading Claudia's poem, but I could always write another if I'm wrong :P
[Edit: now the prompt is out.... I would say this fits the prompt only loosely. The Rubik's Cube does have a lot of mathematics to its, but it's not really a natural process. I submitted it anyway, but I'll try to write something closer to the prompt]
One note, each stanza is written to 3 syllables X 3 lines to match the face of a Rubik's Cube, and there are 6 stanzas, to match the number of faces in a Rubik's Cube. So there are as many syllables in the poem as there are squares on the face of the Rubik's Cube.... getting a bit geometrical here...
In the spirit of the Rubik's Cube, I've rearranged the words in the poem above to come up with this silly version:
[Edit: now the prompt is out.... I would say this fits the prompt only loosely. The Rubik's Cube does have a lot of mathematics to its, but it's not really a natural process. I submitted it anyway, but I'll try to write something closer to the prompt]
One note, each stanza is written to 3 syllables X 3 lines to match the face of a Rubik's Cube, and there are 6 stanzas, to match the number of faces in a Rubik's Cube. So there are as many syllables in the poem as there are squares on the face of the Rubik's Cube.... getting a bit geometrical here...
In the spirit of the Rubik's Cube, I've rearranged the words in the poem above to come up with this silly version:
Three by three
unique sex
positions
untangling
six planes each–
try facial
quintillion
possible,
colored of
yellow fright,
but still I
face the green,
a Rubik’s
of blue, when
plain orange you,
forty-three,
prefer a
red-white cube