Tipping Point

I wanted to find some interesting styles of poetry for 2022. Metered poetry has always been a challenge for me. I discovered I subconsciously avoided the challenge of dabbling in this particular writing pattern. This year I decided to spread my wings and fly into the face of the storm. I wanted to find some interesting styles of poetry for 2022. Metered poetry has always been a challenge for me. I discovered I subconsciously avoided the challenge of dabbling in this particular writing pattern. This year I decided to spread my wings and fly into the face of the storm. I stumbled across the Aquarian by accident and thought it might be interesting to play with this metered style during the last part of January and the entire month of February. This one I will call Tipping Point.

I am discovering this style of poetry is harder than it first appeared. You only have to develop fourteen syllables for each stanza, but sometimes you want to write more. Plus, I find the constant counting of the syllables distracting. I also have to fight the urge to create rhythms. These short poems have gotten darker, and I am not sure why. Maybe it’s caused by the dark winter or all the conflicting messages we get these days. I know for sure that sadness captured my attention during this dark winter.

About the Aquarian and Tipping Point

Maris Mazz created this metered style of poetry.

Each stanza has lines of 2/4/6/2 syllables. They can have any number of stanzas creating multiples of 4 lines. They aren’t supposed to rhythm at all.

Tipping point

When I
Go to the poles
Not a republican
Or one

Of those
New democrats
More like an old JFK voter
One of 

Those weird
Independents
Who can switch her party
Based on

The stand
Of the person
Running for the office
That’s why

I stay
Away from the fray
And all political
Jargon

I feel
It has all gone
Too far these days and I
Ignore

Both the
Liberal and
Conservative spillage
I like

To sent
People chicken
Social media pictures
But even

I have 
Reached a tipping
Point due to the virus
Power 

Grabs by
People from both
Sides of political
Aisles

The flip
Side of the same 
Coin bad actors on the 
World stage

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