I am taking a blogday off from my spiritual atheist writing to accept WordPress’s challenge to write about the word abstract. Writing, of course, includes poetry, so I am going to go with an abstract poem:
any en
any en
aany aen
bany ben
cany cen
dany den
eany een
fany fen
gany gen
hany hen
iany ien
jany jen
kany ken
lany len
many men
nany nen
oany oen
pany pen
qany qen
rany ren
sany sen
tany ten
uany uen
vany ven
wany wen
xany xen
yany yen
zany zen
As you can see from the above abstract poem, it has no conventional form, using two lists of words side by side, setting the base line with the first two side-by-side words, then continuing with consecutive letters of the English alphabet starting the words of consecutive lines. Most of the words thus formed are not real word pairs in the English language, with three lines noticeably standing out from the rest for containing two common real words. The lines just happen to be in the first line, the middle line, and the last line, giving a weird kind of order interior to the abstraction of the rest of the lines. Moreover, were you to use the words of the three lines thus made, you just might create a message to the reader, one that expresses a very abstract thought, yet one that could be magical in its meaning, were the reader to believe in magic:
Any En can lead Many Men to Zany Zen
rawgod
wany wen
